SpaceX hires Ex-NASA official for its Starship program

SpaceX has hired Kathy Lueders, a former NASA associate administrator who recently retired from the space agency, to work on the company’s next-generationLueders is a general manager at Starbase, SpaceX’s launch facility in southern Texas, according to people familiar with the matter who asked not to be identified discussing personnel changes. SpaceX both builds and launches its massive deep-space Starship vehicle from the facility. The hiring was reported earlier by CNBC.

Prior to joining SpaceX, Lueders spent roughly three decades at NASA, working on both the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station programs. She served as the manager of the Commercial Crew Program, which worked extensively with SpaceX to launch the company’s first human spaceflight missions to the ISS. She also served as NASA’s first female associate administrator for human exploration.

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