Erin Edwards, Deputy Branch Chief for Crew Operations and Capcom

Erin Edwards is deputy branch chief in the Crew Operations Office, where she and her team manage astronaut candidate training schedules, including field medical exercises, land survival, and underwater operations at NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory. She develops and tests new training programs and serves in the International Space Station Mission Control Center as a capsule communicator and instructor, relaying complex spacecraft operations to crews during dynamic activities.

A Canadian from Port Moody, British Columbia, Edwards is a military pilot who served as an aircraft commander in Canadian Special Operations Forces on the CH-146 Griffon. She came to NASA through a military posting, became the first Canadian non-astronaut posted as a capcom and later an operations officer, and is on a two-year assignment of a three-year term.

More recently she has been assigned as the TH57 Helicopter Project Pilot at AOD to support lunar-focused Space Flight Readiness Training.

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