I'm Tiffany Titus I'm the Ground Operations Lead for the Quesst mission and X-59
as the ground operations lead i'm responsible for overseeing
the planning and execution of all things ground operations with the X-59 aircraft
I'm kind of in a way like a wedding planner or I'm making
sure the plane is ready to go from a maintenance standpoint making sure all the teams are ready to
go to support the mission and just really making sure everything comes together
kind of like you would on your big day
prior to joining the X-59 some of the projects that I supported included studying
sonic boom acoustics and sonic boom interactions
including the Schlieren imagery that's now famous
of the two T-38 interactions
watching Sally Ride launch on STS-7 back in the early 80s
really inspired me to want to go into science technology and math
and just pursue that career
and and now I'm here today thanks to Sally Ride
when I'm not at the office you can pretty much
find me in the Sierra 24/7
whether it be winter fall spring summer I love being in the mountains
and I love being off the grid exploring
it's just a place of for me zen relaxation a chance
to explore and just wander my husband proposed to me back in the Sierra and our wedding was
actually at a lake in the Sierra where we had friends backpack into to join us
I really enjoy getting to do STEM outreach working at NASA
I think it's great to be able to go to different
events basically just inspire them to keep going to ask questions to keep pursuing things that
they might not normally think they have a chance to do
as a girl growing up in Michigan I never thought I would have the chance
to really see something like X-59 fly it'll just be really neat
to see all of it come together and all that hard work of the team members just really pay off