Kathy Lueders

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Kathy Lueders (2014)

Kathryn (Kathy) Lueders is an American engineer and manager. Lueders is the first woman in NASA history to head NASA's human spaceflight program in the position of Associate Administrator of the Human Exploration and Operations (HEO) Mission Directorate . Prior to her appointment in June 2020, she led NASA's Commercial Crew Program .

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Lueders received her Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance from the University of New Mexico . She also holds a BS in Industrial Engineering from New Mexico State University .

In 1992 she started working at NASA in the propulsion laboratory of the White Sands Test Facility. At the time, she was only the second woman to work there. She was depot manager of the space shuttle program Orbital Maneuvering Systems and Reaction Control Systems . She then held several senior positions in the International Space Station program office at NASA's Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston , Texas . Among other things, she was responsible for the first manned flight of a rocket from the private company SpaceX to the International Space Station ISS in May 2020 . In her new role, she will implement NASa's plan to bring the first woman and the next man to the moon by 2024.

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  1. ↑ Eric Berger: NASA's new chief of human spaceflight has a commercial background. In: arstechnica.com. Condé Nast, June 12, 2020, accessed June 16, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Bettina Inclán, Matthew Rydin: Kathy Lueders Selected to Lead NASA's Human Space Flight Office. In: nasa.gov. June 12, 2020, accessed on June 16, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Boss position at NASA: She is the first woman to head the directorate for manned spaceflight. In: faz.net. June 12, 2020, accessed June 17, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Tech Briefs Interview: NASA's Kathy Lueders. In: techbriefs.com. Tech Briefs Media Group, February 1, 2015, accessed June 16, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Biographies: Kathryn L. Lueders. In: iafastro.org. International Astronautical Federation (IAF), accessed June 16, 2020 .
  6. ↑ a b James Dean: NASA names new Commercial Crew Program chief, replaces Mango. In: floridatoday.com. April 21, 2014, accessed June 16, 2020 .
  7. ^ Robert Sullivan: Onward and Upward. In: vogue.com. Condé Nast, March 8, 2017, accessed June 16, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Boss position at NASA: She is the first woman to head the directorate for manned spaceflight . In: FAZ.NET . June 12, 2020 ( faz.net [accessed June 17, 2020]).
  9. ↑ After a surprising departure: Kathy Lueders becomes head of the US space program. DER SPIEGEL, June 13, 2020, accessed on June 17, 2020 .
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SURNAME Lueders, Kathy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lueders, Kathryn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American engineer and manager
DATE OF BIRTH before 1992