INPERSON
NASA / Robert Markowitz: Gary Jordan directs the video shoot with Artemis II astronauts ahead of the crew reveal event at NASA’ s Johnson Space Center in 2023.
FROM SENECA VALLEY TO
MISSION CONTROL
Former Seneca Valley student Gary Jordan helps bring America’ s space missions— including the recent Artemis II— to audiences around the world from inside NASA’ s Johnson Space Center.
BY NICOLE TAFE
NASA / James Blair: Gary Jordan speaks with former NASA flight director Gene Kranz in the newly refurbished Apollo Mission Operations Control Room during the agency’ s 50th anniversary celebration of Apollo 11 in 2019.
Growing up in Cranberry, Gary Jordan never imagined he would one day sit inside mission control helping narrate one of NASA’ s most historic events— the launch of Artemis II.
“ I hardly believed a place like NASA would give a guy like me a second thought,” says Jordan.
Today, however, the 34-year-old Seneca Valley graduate serves as manager of communications and public affairs at NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, where he helps bridge the gap between groundbreaking space exploration and the public watching around the world.
Jordan’ s path to NASA was anything but traditional. Though he loved science
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