SpaceX hires ex-NASA official Kathy Lueders for key role on Starship program

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SpaceX hires ex-NASA official Kathy Lueders for key role on Starship program
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The former NASA associate administrator recently retired from the space agency after three decades at the organization.

Hawthorne-based SpaceX has hired Kathy Lueders, a former NASA associate administrator who recently retired from the space agency, to work on the company’s next-generation Starship program.

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.Lueders left NASA at the end of last month. When she stepped down, she said on Twitter she was taking some much-needed time off, but “will be back for my next adventure.”

Wildlife and environmental groups sued the Federal Aviation Administration last month over the Texas launch. Despite the explosion, Musk said his company could be ready to launch the next Starship in six to eight weeks with the FAA’s OK. An attorney for the Center for Biological Diversity, one of the plaintiffs, said the groups are suing over what they consider to be the FAA’s failure to fully consider the environmental impacts of the Starship program near Boca Chica Beach in South Texas. They asked the court to throw out the five-year license the FAA granted to SpaceX.

Starship still attach to booster 7 spins out of control in the sky after launch from the pad during SpaceX’s next-generation Starship spacecraft atop its powerful Super Heavy rocket, falls to earth after exploding 4 minutes after its launch Thursday from the company’s Boca Chica launchpad on a brief uncrewed test flight near Brownsville, Texas, U.S. April 20, 2023.

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