The American space Agency Nasa has carried with Kathy Lueders for the first time, a woman at the head of the Directorate of manned spaceflight. With a view to the planned lunar landing mission in the year 2024 Lueders was exactly the Right thing on this Post, said Nasa chief Jim bride Stine on Friday. The long-standing Nasa Manager has already successfully led programs for commercial human spaceflight and commercial space transportation.
Lueders has been working since 1992 for the American space Agency. Most recently, she was at Nasa responsible for the end of may took place the first manned flight of a rocket from the private company SpaceX to the International space station ISS. For years, Lueders managed the test program for space capsules being developed by companies such as SpaceX and Boeing in cooperation with Nasa.
Nasa wants to bring in four years astronauts on the moon. A Boeing – built missile of the type SLS and an aerospace company-Lockheed Martin-built Orion space capsule is to be used. The program, however, is not in default.