William "Invoice" Gerstenmaier in his former position as NASA Affiliate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operations.NASA/Invoice IngallsSpac
William “Invoice” Gerstenmaier in his former position as NASA Affiliate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operations.
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SpaceX is just a few months away from its first try at launching astronauts and the corporate has introduced in one of many foremost consultants in human spaceflight to assist it achieve this efficiently.
William Gerstenmaier, the previous chief of NASA’s human spaceflight program, has now begun working at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California, folks conversant in his hiring advised CNBC. In his new position Gerstenmaier is reporting to SpaceX vp of mission assurance Hans Koenigsmann, these folks stated, as the corporate prepares to start launching astronauts.
A SpaceX spokesperson confirmed that Gerstenmaier is a marketing consultant for the corporate’s reliability engineering staff.
Beforehand Gerstenmaier served because the NASA Affiliate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operations for practically 14 years. In complete he had a 4 decade profession with NASA, engaged on applications starting from the Area Shuttle to the Worldwide Area Station. Gerstenmaier is extensively thought of one of many world’s prime specialists in flying people in house, continuously testifying earlier than Congress on the topic.
His transfer to personal aspect of the house trade comes after Gerstenmaier was demoted at NASA in July, in a shock shake-up of prime…