Michelle Amos

Michelle Amos is an electronics design engineer at NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center. Amos joined NASA in 1990 as an electronics design engineer and stayed with NASA for 30 years. Amos was also a systems engineer for Deep Space Logistics.

Education Amos graduated from Southern University and A&M College in 1989 with a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering. In 2005, she earned a Master of Science in engineering management from the University of Central Florida.

Career

In 2006, Amos was co-chair of the NASA Advanced Range Technology Working Group. Amos designs electrical systems and control equipment in at the Kennedy Space Center's Advanced Technology Development Center and worked on a support team for the International Space Station configuring and documenting its electrical configurations. She was the project manager lead for the shuttle transition and retirement activities. She worked on Perseverance, the Mars 2020 rover, as a system engineer.

In October 2024, Amos delivered a keynote at BYU-Idaho titled ‘Light of the World’, discussing her role as systems engineer on NASA’s Artemis Moon-logistics team.

Honors In 2002 she won an All Star Award at NASA's Women of Color Government and Defense Technology Awards Conference. In 2003, she received the KSC Strategic Leadership Award. in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to Dunk and Dorothy Wright, one of ten children. She and her husband, John D. Amos, have three children and live in Oviedo, Florida. The pair were called to the mission shortly after Amos was working on the Mars 2020 Rover. They returned to watch the landing in person and shared it online with over 200 missionaries.

Following their time as mission leaders which ended in 2023, John Amos was called as an area seventy of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in March 2023. In April 2025 John Amos was called as a general authority seventy of the Church.