mission:60s featured guest

Casey Swails is NASA’s deputy associate administrator, the agency’s second-highest-ranking civil servant and principal advisor to the deputy administrator. In this role, she helps lead overall day-to-day operations and long-term strategic direction across NASA’s 10 field centers, mission directorates, and staff organizations, while guiding the agency’s workforce and an annual budget of more than $24 billion. With over two decades at NASA, Casey has worked across human spaceflight programs, institutional transformation, and enterprise-level operations. She has led some of the agency’s most significant organizational change and workforce initiatives, including major modernization efforts that underpin how NASA operates today.