{"id":20163,"date":"2019-01-05T14:16:09","date_gmt":"2019-01-05T19:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/?p=20163"},"modified":"2019-01-05T14:16:09","modified_gmt":"2019-01-05T19:16:09","slug":"wyche-named-deputy-director-of-johnson-space-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wyche-named-deputy-director-of-johnson-space-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Wyche named deputy director of Johnson Space Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p2\"><b>Vanessa Ellerbe Wyche \u201985, M \u201987 <\/b>remembers studying hard at Clemson and the way campus leaders mentored her, especially when one chemistry professor encouraged her to trust herself when she was struggling: \u201cI remember telling him that I wasn\u2019t quite understanding something. He told me that I just needed to step back, take a break, and it was going to come to me. And it did.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20164\" style=\"width: 537px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/clemson.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Wyche.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20164\" class=\" wp-image-20164\" src=\"https:\/\/clemson.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Wyche.jpg\" alt=\"Vanessa Wyche\" width=\"527\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clemsonworld.wpenginepowered.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/12\/Wyche.jpg 800w, https:\/\/clemsonworld.wpenginepowered.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/12\/Wyche-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/clemsonworld.wpenginepowered.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/12\/Wyche-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/clemsonworld.wpenginepowered.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/12\/Wyche-705x471.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 527px) 100vw, 527px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20164\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vanessa Wyche visited Clemson University in February to help PEER &amp; WISE celebrate its 30th anniversary.<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"p2\">Now, after a career with NASA spanning nearly three decades, she\u2019s leading the way as the deputy director of Johnson Space Center in Houston, becoming the first African-American to serve in the position when she started in August 2018. Working alongside director Mark Geyer, Wyche is responsible for 10,000 civil service and contract employees at Johnson Space Center and White Sands Test Facility in Las Cruces, New Mexico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vanessa Ellerbe Wyche \u201985, M \u201987 remembers studying hard at Clemson and the way campus leaders mentored her, especially when one chemistry professor encouraged her to trust herself when she was struggling: \u201cI remember telling him that I wasn\u2019t quite understanding something. He told me that I just needed to step back, take a break, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":20164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[1686,2025,3180,3339],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-20163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifelong-tigers","tag-johnson-space-center","tag-nasa","tag-vanessa-wyche","tag-winter-2019-lifelong-tigers"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/12\/Wyche.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20163"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=20163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}