NASA Office of Communications Director of Engagement Aya Collins delivers remarks during a 5th Annual Hidden Figures Street Naming Anniversary event Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Keegan Barber)

NASA Office of Communications Director of Engagement Aya Collins delivers remarks during a 5th Annual Hidden Figures Street Naming Anniversary event Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Keegan Barber)

NASA Office of Communications Director of Engagement Aya Collins delivers remarks during a 5th Annual Hidden Figures Street Naming Anniversary event Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Keegan Barber)

Michelle Jones, NASA’s deputy associate administrator for communications, left, and Aya Collins, director of the engagement division of NASA’s Office of Communications, record a video for social media in front of the mural “To the Moon, and Back” by the New York-based artist team Geraluz and WERC that was created as part of the reimagined NASA Art Program, Tuesday, September 24, 2024, in New York City’s Hudson Square neighborhood. For the inaugural project of the reestablished NASA Art Program the agency collaborated with the Hudson Square Business Improvement District on an open call for New York-based artists to design and install a large-scale mural inspired by NASA’s work and missions. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

Aya Collins, director of the engagement division of NASA’s Office of Communications, left, and Lisa Frazier, lead for strategic events and engagements in NASA’s Office of Communications, speak to students before introducing Expedition 71 NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick and Jeanette Epps, Wednesday, March 5, 2025 at Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom Public Charter School in Washington. Dominick, Epps, and fellow crewmates Michael Barratt and Tracy Dyson served as part of Expedition 71 aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

NASA Assistant Deputy Associate Administrator for the Moon to Mars Program Office Lakiesha Hawkins, left, and NASA Director of Engagement Aya Collins, right, talk about opportunities with NASA at the Take Up Space (Literally) panel conversation during the ESSENCE Fest event in New Orleans on July 5.

NASA Assistant Deputy Associate Administrator for the Moon to Mars Program Office Lakiesha Hawkins, left, and NASA Director of Engagement Aya Collins are shown at the Take Up Space (Literally) panel conversation during the 30th annual ESSENCE Fest in New Orleans on July 5.

NASA representatives are shown at the 30th annual ESSENCE Fest in New Orleans on July 5. Pictured left to right: Aya Collins, director of engagement; Michelle Bascoe, management analyst; Lakiesha Hawkins, assistant deputy associate administrator for the Moon to Mars Program Office; Zudayyah Taylor-Dunn, chief knowledge officer for Space Operations Mission Directorate; and Miyoshi Collins, program specialist.

Acting NASA Associate Administrator, Vanessa Wyche, left, and NASA Director of Public Engagement, Aya Collins Williams, watch the first stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 land at Landing Zone 1 after launching the company’s Dragon spacecraft on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission to the International Space Station with NASA astronauts Zena Cardman, Mike Fincke, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya Yui, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov onboard, Friday, Aug. 1, 2025, from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission is the eleventh crew rotation mission of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. Cardman, Fincke, Yui, Platonov launched at 11:43 a.m. EDT from Launch Complex 39A at the NASA's Kennedy Space Center to begin a six month mission aboard the orbital outpost. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Girls United co-founder Rechelle Dennis, left, introduces NASA Assistant Deputy Associate Administrator for the Moon to Mars Program Office Lakiesha Hawkins, center, and NASA Director of Engagement Aya Collins, right, for a Take Up Space (Literally) panel conversation during the 30th annual ESSENCE Fest event in New Orleans on July 5.

Girls United co-founder Rechelle Dennis, left, continues a conversation about how to become a shining star in the face of adversity with NASA Assistant Deputy Associate Administrator for the Moon to Mars Program Office Lakiesha Hawkins, center, and NASA Director of Engagement Aya Collins at the Take Up Space (Literally) panel conversation during the 30th annual ESSENCE Fest in New Orleans on July 5.

Girls United co-founder Rechelle Dennis, left, moderates a conversation with NASA Assistant Deputy Associate Administrator for the Moon to Mars Program Office Lakiesha Hawkins, center, and NASA Director of Engagement Aya Collins at the Take Up Space (Literally) panel presentation during the 30th annual ESSENCE Fest in New Orleans on July 5.