WASHINGTON : Elon Musk's SpaceX has tapped NASA's former human spaceflight boss Kathy Lueders to help oversee development of the company's moon and Mars rocket called Starship, a person familiar with the hire said on Monday.Lueders, the second former NASA human spaceflight chief to retire and move to Spac
WASHINGTON : Elon Musk's SpaceX has tapped NASA's former human spaceflight boss Kathy Lueders to help oversee development of the company's moon and Mars rocket called Starship, a person familiar with the hire said on Monday.
The source who confirmed the hiring of Lueders, first reported by CNBC, spoke on condition of anonymity. SpaceX did not immediately return a request for comment. Lueders was among a group of officials credited with leading the U.S. space agency's shift to public-private contracting models, a cost-saving approach under which NASA helps fund development of private spacecraft and purchases rides for astronauts as a service, instead of managing the spacecraft as the spacecraft owner.
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