{"id":21974,"date":"2023-05-18T19:47:20","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T11:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/kathy-lueders-joins-spacex-starbase-team-after-nasa-retirement\/"},"modified":"2023-05-18T19:47:20","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T11:47:20","slug":"kathy-lueders-joins-spacex-starbase-team-after-nasa-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/kathy-lueders-joins-spacex-starbase-team-after-nasa-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Kathy Lueders joins SpaceX Starbase team after NASA retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lueders and SpaceX are very much not strangers<\/h2>\n

During her time at NASA, Lueders helped manage many of NASA\u2019s recent commercial ventures in some capacity. That relationship started as the Commercial Resupply Services contract manager with SpaceX and Orbital Sciences (now Northrop Grumman). That program was so successful that NASA moved on and created the Commercial Crew Program, which Lueders also managed.<\/p>\n

Lueders was there when SpaceX launched Demo-2, the first crewed flight of a Falcon 9 and the return to human spaceflight from the US since the retirement of the Space Shuttle. (This was also around the time I met Zac and joined Space Explored) After the success of the CCP with SpaceX, Boeing will get there soon enough, Lueders moved on up to take over the Human Exploration and Operations Directorate.<\/p>\n

According to CNBC, Lueders is joining SpaceX and reportedly holding the title of General Manager down at Starbase, Texas. She will report to SpaceX President and COO Gwynne Shotwell, who directly oversees the Starship development program. Lueders expertise in developing systems is a great win for SpaceX which is now moving Starship from the scrappy \u201cbackyard\u201d development project to a full-scale commercial launcher.<\/p>\n

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