CNBC by Michael Sheetz 6/12/2020
NASA’s Kathy Lueders, who oversaw the SpaceX astronaut launch, will lead agency’s 2024 moon effort
Key Points
• NASA chief Jim Bridenstine on Friday announced that Kathy Lueders was selected as the agency’s associate administrator of its Human Exploration & Operations mission directorate.
• Lueders has led NASA’s Commercial Crew program since 2014 and will now lead all the agency’s human spaceflight efforts, including its goal to land astronauts on the moon by 2024.
• She signed off on SpaceX’s first crewed launch, which last month.sent a pair of NASA astronauts to space.
The NASA official who oversaw the first SpaceX astronaut launch last month will now lead all the agency’s human spaceflight efforts, including its goal to land astronauts on the moon by 2024.
NASA chief Jim Bridenstine on Friday announced that Kathy Lueders was selected as the agency’s associate administrator of its Human Exploration & Operations mission directorate. He said in a tweet that Lueders to be “the right person to lead HEO as we prepare to send astronauts to the Moon.â€
Lueders is the first woman to lead NASA’s human spaceflight efforts, the agency noted.
She has led the agency’s Commercial Crew program since 2014.
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