NASA's Human Spaceflight Chief Kathy Lueders Announces Retirement

Kathy Lueders, the NASA official responsible for the International Space Station and commercial cargo and crew programs, will retire from the agency at the end of April. Ken Bowersox, who is currently the deputy associate administrator for space operations, will take over her position. Lueders oversaw the successful launch of SpaceX’s Demo-2 mission and was responsible for all NASA human spaceflight efforts, including the Artemis lunar exploration campaign. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson praised Lueders for championing a new way of doing business in low Earth orbit and for pioneering the public-private commercial model that will return humanity to the Moon and prepare for the first crewed missions to Mars.