Ginger Kerrick
Ginger Kerrick | |
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| Born | 1970 |
| Alma mater | Texas Tech University(BS,MS) |
| Known for | First female Hispanic flight director at NASA |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | Johnson Space Center |
| Thesis | Infrared deep level transient spectroscopy(1993) |
Ginger Kerrickis an AmericanphysicistatNASA'sLyndon B. Johnson Space Center. She is the first Hispanic female to be flight director at NASA.[1]
Education
[edit]Kerrick graduated second in her class fromHanks High Schoolin El Paso, Texas, and was named El Paso Female Athlete of the Year.[1][2]She started her college degree at theUniversity of Texas at El Paso,where she walked onto their women's basketball team.[2]During the first game of the season, she blew out her knee, ending her basketball career.[2]She then transferred toTexas Tech Universityto get herBachelor of Scienceand aMaster of Sciencein physics.[3]Her 1993 master's thesis was entitledInfrared deep level transient spectroscopy.[4]
Career
[edit]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-astronautCapsule Communicator (Capcom),[5]first Russian-training-integration instructor,[6]and the first Hispanic female NASAflight directorin 2005.[8][1][9]She served as flight director with NASA'sLyndon B. Johnson Space Centerfrom 2005 to 2012.[10][11]
There, she created plans for scenarios of astronauts in space which assisted ISS and shuttle operations, making her a dual-certified flight director.[8][5]She currently is the division chief of the Flight Integration Division in FOD (Flight Operations Directorate) since August 2016.[10]Kerrick is a member of theAmerican Physical Society(APS).
In November 2021 Kerrick decided to quit her engagement at NASA and moved toBarrios Technology, LTDin Houston, Texas where she took over the role as Chief Strategy Officer.[12]
References
[edit]- ^abc"NM Museum of Space History: NASA's first woman Hispanic flight director to speak at museum".freep.com.
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- ^Bailey, Crystal."Physics Careers: To the Bachelor's Degree and Beyond"(PDF).American Physical Society.
- ^Ginger, Kerrick (1 December 1993).Infrared deep level transient spectroscopy(Thesis).hdl:2346/60914.
- ^abc"Women@NASA » Ginger Kerrick".women.nasa.gov.
- ^ab"Ginger Kerrick - Office of the Texas Governor - Greg Abbott".gov.texas.gov.Archived fromthe originalon 2017-03-03.Retrieved2017-03-08.
- ^Ginger, Kerrick; Valerie, Paton; Guy, Bailey; Katie, Allen; Bob, Smith (2017-03-09)."All Things Texas Tech (February 2011)":22–26.
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- ^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
- ^ab"November 2018 – NCURA Region V".Retrieved2020-04-17.
- ^"SPS Public Lecture in Physics: NASA Flight Director Ginger Kerrick".www.tlu.edu.Retrieved2020-04-17.
- ^"Ginger Kerrick Davis".www.linkedin.com.