Kathy Lueders Was NASA's Top Human Spaceflight Official. Now She Works for SpaceX

Kathy Lueders, seen in the Launch Control Center at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center applauds during the SpaceX Demo-2 mission in May 2020, the first launch with astronauts on board the SpaceX Crew Dragon. At the time, Lueders the manager of NASA's Commercial Crew Program; she has now joined SpaceX. Credit: NASA

Another of NASA’s top human spaceflight officials has joined SpaceX. Kathy Leuders, the former associate administrator for NASA’s Space Operations Mission Directorate, retired from NASA on May 1 after 31 years of service.  But this week, CNBC reports that Lueders has joined SpaceX at the company’s Starbase facility in Texas. She follows Bill Gerstenmaier, who retired from NASA in 2020 and became a senior executive at SpaceX as build and flight reliability vice president.

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