Tracy Drain is a flight systems engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California. She is currently the lead flight systems engineer for the Europa Clipper mission, which is slated to launch in 2024 and will study Jupiter’s icy moon of the same name.
After completing her bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering in 1998, Drain attended the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she received a master’s degree in the same field. She began working at JPL in 2000 and since then has been involved with a variety of deep space missions.
