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Peggy Guirgis is a systems engineer and researcher whose work focuses on human space exploration, mission operations, and the technologies required to sustain life beyond Earth. Her key research areas include human exploration destination systems, analog field testing, and mission control team dynamics. Guirgis contributed to NASA's strategic roadmap for human exploration, co-authoring the influential "NASA Technology Area 07 Human Exploration Destination Systems Roadmap" (2011, 15 citations), which outlined the critical technologies needed for future crewed missions to the Moon, Mars, and other destinations. This work helped shape agency-wide priorities for developing habitats, life support, and surface mobility systems. She also played a key role in analyzing mission control operations during NASA's Desert Research and Technology Studies (Desert RATS) field tests, co-authoring a 2013 paper (4 citations) that documented team structure and operational lessons learned from simulated lunar exploration. Her insights into how ground teams coordinate during analog missions have informed real-time decision-making and training protocols. Guirgis’s contributions bridge high-level technology planning with hands-on operational experience, making her work valuable for students and researchers interested in the human and systems engineering challenges of deep space exploration.