NASA's History-Making Kathy Lueders Announces Retirement

Kathy Lueders, a long-serving engineer and manager for NASA, is retiring effective May 1. Lueders leaves NASA with a long list of accomplishments, including successfully launching the Commercial Crew program, which operates on a fixed-price basis and allows winning companies to sell space transportation services to private customers. Lueders subsequently served as associate administrator of the Human Exploration and Operations (HEO) Mission Directorate and then associate administrator of the Space Operations Missions Directorate when HEO was split into separate exploration and operations organizations.