Rhega C. Gordon

Rhega C. Gordon is Chief Financial Officer at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.

After serving as Deputy since 2013, she was named to the position in February 2019. Gordon oversees implementation and administration of integrated Marshall Center NASA financial management, including all aspects of resources planning, programming, budgeting and execution processes, and guidelines and controls for accounting and management of financial resources.

From 2011 to 2013, Ms. Gordon was manager of the Planning and Control Office in Marshall’s Flight Programs and Partnerships Office, planning and executing fiscal resources in support of the organization's role in human exploration projects and tasks; flight mission programs and projects; International Space Station (ISS) hardware integration and operations; and external partnerships. She was manager of the Science and Mission Systems Program Planning and Control Office from 2010 to 2011 where she planned and executed fiscal resources in support of the development of proposals for science research, primary mirror segment assembly tests at Marshall for the James Webb Space Telescope and delivery of key components for next-generation environmental control and life-support systems.

Ms. Gordon managed the Instrument & Payload Systems Department Resources Group from 2006 to 2010, leading the design and development of mechanical and electrical flight hardware and software for a variety of NASA space systems, and also guided the fabrication, assembly and integrated testing of flight hardware. From 2005 to 2006, she served as Manager of the Engineering Directorate's Payload and Technology Business Office and Space Systems Payloads and Project Offices. She was a team lead in Marshall's Flight Projects Directorate from 2004 to 2005. There she supported, among other missions, oversight of payload and science operations on the ISS and the continued imaging research on orbit of NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.

Ms. Gordon began her NASA career in 1991 as an engineer in the Ground Systems Department of the Mission Operations Laboratory at Marshall, which developed mission operations requirements for the ISS and led flight and ground operations during missions. She rose to the position of Resource Manager for the organization, continuing in that role until 2004.

A native of Athens, AL, Ms. Gordon earned her bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Alabama in Huntsville in 1991. During her career at NASA, she has received a number of awards and honors, including a NASA Exceptional Service Medal, a Space Flight Awareness Award, and numerous special service and group achievement awards.

Ms. Gordon and her husband, Orlando "Fritz" Gordon, live in Madison, AL, with their two children.