Ginger Kerrick
Ginger Kerrick is an American physicist at NASA’s Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center.
Education
Kerrick graduated from Hanks High School in Texas.[1] For her college degree, she transferred from the University of Texas at El Paso[2] to get her Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science in physics from Texas Tech University.[3] Her 1993 master's thesis was entitled Infrared deep level transient spectroscopy.[4]
NASA career
Kerrick was a summer intern at NASA in 1991, which led to first a co-op position and then full time employment as a materials research engineer with NASA in May, 1994.[5][6] Kerrick interviewed for the astronaut program, but was disqualified for kidney stones.[7] She became the first non-astronaut Capsule Communicator (Capcom),[8] first Russian-training-integration instructor,[9] and the first Hispanic female NASA Flight Director in 2005[10][11][12] She currently serves as Flight Director with NASA’s Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center.[13] There, she creates plans for scenarios of astronauts in space.[14] Kerrick is a member of the American Physical Society (APS).
References
- ↑ http://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/arts/2016/03/08/nm-museum-space-history-nasas-first-woman-hispanic-flight-director-speak-museum/81434608/
- ↑ https://www.aps.org/careers/physicists/profiles/kerrick.cfm
- ↑ https://www.aps.org/careers/guidance/webinars/upload/Careers-Talk.pdf
- ↑ http://hdl.handle.net/2346/60914
- ↑ https://women.nasa.gov/ginger-kerrick/
- ↑ http://gov.texas.gov/women/txwomen_hof/hof_kerrick
- ↑ Ginger, Kerrick,; Valerie, Paton,; Guy, Bailey,; Katie, Allen,; Bob, Smith, (2017-03-09). "All Things Texas Tech (February 2011)": 22–26.
- ↑ https://women.nasa.gov/ginger-kerrick/
- ↑ http://gov.texas.gov/women/txwomen_hof/hof_kerrick
- ↑ https://www.aps.org/careers/physicists/profiles/kerrick.cfm
- ↑ http://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/arts/2016/03/08/nm-museum-space-history-nasas-first-woman-hispanic-flight-director-speak-museum/81434608/
- ↑ American Physical Society, Joint Fall 2012 Meeting of the Texas Sections of the APS, AAPT, and Zone 13 of the SPS, October 25–27, 2012, abstract #H1.002
- ↑ https://women.nasa.gov/ginger-kerrick/
- ↑ https://www.aps.org/careers/physicists/profiles/kerrick.cfm