Bo
Naasz
Senior Technical Civil Servant, NASA

Bo Naasz is a Senior Technical civil servant at NASA, currently leading the agency-level Rendezvous and Capture System Capability Leadership Team, and servicing as the primary editor of NASA On-Orbit Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing (OSAM) Strategic Technology Plan. His duties include stewardship, strategy, and advising of NASA leadership and projects on issues relevant to Rendezvous and Capture and OSAM. A graduate of Virginia Tech, with Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Aerospace Engineering, Bo is a subject matter expert for autonomous rendezvous and docking, spacecraft and terrain relative navigation, and robotic in-space servicing systems.  He has served as flight dynamics lead, Principal Investigator, Project Manager, and Mission System Engineer, respectively, on Hubble Robotic and crewed Servicing Missions, the Asteroid Redirect Mission, and the NASA OSAM-1 mission. Born in Kansas, and raised in Texas, Maryland, and South Dakota, Bo currently lives in Baltimore, Maryland with his wife and three children.