NASA’s First Deaf Engineer in Active Crewed Mission Control Role Impresses

Johanna Lucht was born deaf in Germany, where resources for deaf people were, at the time, limited. Her school did not provide an interpreter until Lucht was 9 years old. Lucht has worked with NASA Armstrong’s research and engineering department, sensors and systems development branch, and vehicle integration and test branch since being hired by NASA. She says the challenges she faced growing up as a deaf person in the hearing world in-part prepared her for her role at NASA.