A NASA profile dated Aug. 12, 2026, traces engineer Lindsey Waitt's route from a childhood in Worcester, Massachusetts, to a test project engineer position on the agency's Artemis launch team. NASA said she took part in a terminal countdown simulation for Artemis III on Thursday, Aug. 6, 2026, in Firing Room 1 of the Rocco A. Petrone Launch Control Center at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Waitt studied mechanical engineering with an aerospace concentration at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, then worked as a systems engineer on radar flight tests for a defense contractor. She later earned a master's degree in Space Operations from the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs. In 2024 she began work at Kennedy for a contractor as a test project engineer during Artemis II, NASA said, and joined the agency as a civil servant after its insourcing initiative was announced earlier in 2026.

NASA described her as the only woman among the 14 test project engineers on the Artemis launch team. According to the profile, she said colleagues were open and welcoming and that safety was always the first priority.