{"id":163937,"date":"2023-05-15T14:23:19","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T19:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/spacex-hires-former-nasa-human-spaceflight-official-kathy-lueders-to-help-with-starship"},"modified":"2023-05-15T14:23:19","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T19:23:19","slug":"spacex-hires-former-nasa-human-spaceflight-official-kathy-lueders-to-help-with-starship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/spacex-hires-former-nasa-human-spaceflight-official-kathy-lueders-to-help-with-starship","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX hires former NASA human spaceflight official Kathy Lueders to help with Starship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-hires-former-nasa-human-spaceflight-official-kathy-lueders-to-help-with-starship2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kathy Lueders, the most recent top human spaceflight official at NASA, has joined <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/elon-musk\/\">Elon Musk\u2019s<\/a> SpaceX after retiring from the agency a couple of weeks ago, CNBC has learned.<\/p>\n<p>Lueders\u2019 role will be general manager, and she will work out of the company\u2019s \u201cStarbase\u201d facility in Texas, reporting directly to SpaceX president and COO Gwynne Shotwell, people familiar with the matter told CNBC.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a key hire for SpaceX as the company aims to make its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/04\/29\/spacex-starship-whats-next.html\">massive Starship rocket<\/a> safe to fly people in the coming years. Lueders, a respected expert in the sector, is already familiar with the company\u2019s human spaceflight work to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathy Lueders, the most recent top human spaceflight official at NASA, has joined Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX after retiring from the agency a couple of weeks ago, CNBC has learned. Lueders\u2019 role will be general manager, and she will work out of the company\u2019s \u201cStarbase\u201d facility in Texas, reporting directly to SpaceX president and COO Gwynne [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}