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Ashley Craig is a Human Factors Engineer and Ergonomist with extensive experience designing, evaluating and improving human performance within complex, safety-critical systems. Her professional background spans aerospace, advanced technology and high-risk industrial environments, where she has led human-centered engineering efforts focused on system integration, operational safety and performance reliability. She specializes in safety-critical operations, human-system integration and survivability in extreme environments.

Ashley currently serves as the Human System Integration Lead at Axiom Space, where she supports the development of next-generation commercial spaceflight systems and orbital infrastructure. In this role, she leads human-centered engineering activities focused on crew safety, operational performance, habitability, usability and integration of human requirements into spacecraft design and mission operations. Her work involves close collaboration with multidisciplinary engineering teams, international stakeholders and commercial partners to ensure human performance considerations are embedded throughout the system lifecycle for spaceflight operations in complex and high-risk environments.

Prior to joining Axiom Space, Ashley served as the Global Ergonomics Program Manager at Microsoft, where she led enterprise-wide ergonomics and human factors strategy across a global workforce. In that role, she developed scalable assessment frameworks, governance models and training programs that aligned human-centered design principles with engineering standards, organizational risk management and employee wellbeing. Her work included collaboration with cross-functional teams to integrate ergonomic and usability considerations into both physical and digital work environments.

Ashley also previously worked as a Human Factors Engineer at NASA, supporting the Gateway program as part of the Artemis missions. Her responsibilities included human-system integration, crew-centered interface evaluation, usability analysis and verification activities for spacecraft systems operating in constrained and high-risk environments. This work required coordination with international partners and multidisciplinary engineering teams to ensure human performance and safety were fully integrated into system design and operational concepts.

Ashley holds a B.S. in Communications and Kinesiology from Sam Houston State University and a M.S. in Human Factors Engineering from Embry-Riddle. She completed her master’s degree with distinction while working full time on active spaceflight programs, balancing academic research with applied engineering practice in operational aerospace environments.