Location Colorado, United States, North America Regions Western US Gender Female
Website www.sierraspace.com/leadership/angie-wise/ LinkedIn View on LinkedIn
Angie Wise is the Senior Vice President of Safety and Mission Assurance (S&MA) at Sierra Space, where she is responsible for System Safety Engineering, Reliability Engineering and Software Assurance for all Sierra Space programs, including the Dream Chaser® spaceplane and habitation elements for the world’s first commercial space station,
Orbital Reef. She joined the company in 2013.
Angie is charged with ensuring that the company provides the safest and most reliable designs possible in order to meet or exceed program mission requirements. Prior Sierra Space, she served at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, in Huntsville, Ala., where she was responsible for the development of the S&MA approach to rating the Space Launch System (SLS) launch vehicle for crewed missions, which will allow for astronauts to return to the moon.
While she was at Marshall, Angie also served as the Deputy Chief S&MA Officer on the Ares I-X launch vehicle program. Her responsibilities included ensuring the safe and reliable flight of Ares I-X by demonstrating dynamic control, performing in-flight separation/staging, and testing parachute performance and recovery of the newly-developed NASA launch vehicle.
Prior to that, Angie supported NASA’s Return to Flight Effort on the Reinforced Carbon-Carbon (RCC) On-Orbit Repair program. She was tasked with ensuring that the material was safe to use during Extra Vehicular Activity (EVA) operation and subsequent arc jet testing to prove the material and method could be used on-orbit to repair an Orbiter if needed to prevent a catastrophic event.
Angie also supported the build, deployment and on-going operations for multiple payloads on the International Space Station, with a focus on payloads that were to be used in the Microgravity Science Glovebox. She also synchronized payload activities with international partners.
