Kathy Lueders
contributorProgram Leadership & Administration
Engineer and program manager who led NASA Commercial Crew through certification of privately operated crew transportation and later directed agency human-spaceflight programs.
- Primary role
- Commercial Crew and NASA human-spaceflight program leader
- Lifespan
- 1956–present
- Relationships
- 7
- Sources
- 3
Biography
Place in spaceflight history
Lueders managed Space Shuttle and station logistics work, led Commercial Crew through test flights and operational certification, and later oversaw NASA human exploration and operations and SpaceX Starbase activity.
Her program leadership helped shift routine United States orbital crew transportation from a government-owned spacecraft to certified commercial services.
Kathy Lueders’s archive record spans Engineer, Commercial Crew Program manager, Associate administrator for Human Exploration and Operations through work connected with NASA, SpaceX. The linked record places that work within International Space Station, Commercial Crew, Artemis, Human Landing System.
Career profile
Roles, organizations, and programs
Archive relationships
Named records, programs, and organizations connected to this archive identity.
- SpaceX Crew-1Led NASA's Commercial Crew Program through certification and the first operational Crew Dragon mission
- NASACanonical organization
- SpaceXCanonical organization
- International Space StationSpaceflight program
- Commercial CrewSpaceflight program
- ArtemisSpaceflight program
- Human Landing SystemSpaceflight program
Sources
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