Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana (left) and Business Team Program Manager Kathy Lueders go to a NASA press conference at the Kennedy Area Center on September 16, 2014 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (AFP/Gerardo Mora).
The NASA official who managed the inaugural personal crewed flight into space last month has been promoted to become the first female head of human spaceflight, the company stated Friday, as it prepares to return people to the Moon in 2024.
” Kathy Lueders has actually been selected to lead @NASA’s Human Expedition & Operations Mission Directorate,” NASA head Jim Bridenstine announced on Twitter.
Kathy Lueders has been chosen to lead @NASA’s Human Expedition & Operations Mission Directorate. Kathy has successfully managed both the Industrial Crew & Commercial Freight programs and is the right individual to lead HEO as we prepare to send out astronauts to the Moon in2024 pic.twitter.com/393 vPTdXwb
— Jim Bridenstine (@JimBridenstine) June 12, 2020
” Kathy has successfully managed both the Industrial Team & Commercial Freight programs and is the best individual to lead HEO as we prepare to send out astronauts to the Moon in 2024,” he included.
Lueders, who signed up with NASA in 1992, supervise the Might 30 launch of 2 astronauts on a SpaceX rocket to the International Spaceport Station– the very first crewed industrial flight into area.
She has actually for years supervised of the extensive testing program for space pills established by SpaceX, Boeing and other companies that are partnering with NASA to develop vessels that can securely take humans into space.
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” You can never offer this NASA and SpaceX team short, they have actually achieved miracles for me,” Lueders stated in a briefing before last month’s launch.
The program to develop industrial area flight programs for NASA was released a decade earlier under the administration of then-president Barack Obama, marking a remarkable change for the area agency, which had actually formerly developed and developed its own rockets and space vehicles.
NASA’s schedule, set by the administration of President Donald Trump, intends to put two astronauts, including the very first lady, on the Moon in 2024 utilizing the heavy SLS rocket and the Orion capsule.
But the program is behind schedule and NASA has actually not made the decision regarding which company will develop the Moon lander.
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