Josh Byerly
COLLEGE STATION, Sept. 1, 2010 – Josh Byerly, who serves as one of the “voices of Mission Control” at NASA and a public affairs officer at the Johnson Space Center, will speak to Texas A&M University communications classes when he visits the campus Sept. 16.
A 1999 Texas A&M graduate, Byerly will also be the guest speaker for the Brazos Valley chapter of IABC (International Association of Business Communicators) at 11:30 a.m. at Christopher’s World Grille.
Byerly says working at NASA “is one of the best jobs there is because you get to witness history every day.
“It never stops being an honor working here,” he adds. “I am lucky enough that I get to have a fun job that I really love. Also, there are hundreds of Aggies working here at NASA, so it’s sort of a family within a family.”
Before joining NASA, Byerly managed global communications for Flowserve, a $4 billion manufacturing company based in Dallas. He had previously served as a public relations account executive with The Point Group in Dallas and Springbok Cohn & Wolfe in Richardson, coordinating national and trade media relations, developing speaking opportunities, trade show support, news releases and other duties.
Byerly was also a general assignments reporter for KBTX-TV and eventually served as a producer for the station, helping with daily news casts and story assignments.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Texas A&M and also an MBA in global management.
At NASA, he works in the Office of Communications and Public Affairs and provides commentary from inside Mission Control during space shuttle and International Space Station missions. He will call the launch of the next space shuttle mission, STS-133, in November, which will be the last for the shuttle Discovery. NASA has one more shuttle mission, STS-134, scheduled for February before the fleet will be retired. Space shuttle Endeavor will fly that mission.
Later this month, Byerly will travel to Russian and Kazakhstan to help coordinate the landing for three of the cosmonauts and astronauts who have been living on board the International Space Station for the past six months. A new crew will launch several days later.
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Contact: Keith Randall, News & Information Services, at (979) 845-4644 or NASA at 281-483-5111.
Tags: NASA, Space Shuttle