Holly Ridings

Director NASA Explorations Operations

Holly Ridings is NASA’s Director of Exploration Operations, and Mission Manager for Artemis IV, the first lunar landing crewed Mission slated for 2028. She previously served as the Gateway Deputy Program Manager and became NASA’s first female Chief Flight Director in 2018, leading NASA human spaceflight operations through the first commercial crew missions to the International Space Station, and the preparation for the Artemis Mission. Over the course of her career in human spaceflight operations, she has spent thousands of hours in Mission Control supporting the assembly and operations of the space station. She led several key operational milestones in human spaceflight including the first commercial cargo spacecraft mission to the space station in 2012.