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'''Ginger Kerrick''' is an American [[physicist]] at NASA’s [[Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center]]. |
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Ginger Kerrick is an American Physicist from El Paso, Texas. |
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==Education== |
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Kerrick graduated from [[Hanks High School]] in Texas.<ref>http://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/arts/2016/03/08/nm-museum-space-history-nasas-first-woman-hispanic-flight-director-speak-museum/81434608/</ref> For her college degree, she transferred from the [[University of Texas at El Paso]]<ref>https://www.aps.org/careers/physicists/profiles/kerrick.cfm</ref> to get her [[Bachelor of Science]] and a [[Master of Science]] in physics from [[Texas Tech University]].<ref>https://www.aps.org/careers/guidance/webinars/upload/Careers-Talk.pdf</ref> Her 1993 master's thesis was entitled ''Infrared deep level transient spectroscopy''.<ref>http://hdl.handle.net/2346/60914</ref> |
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==NASA Career== |
==NASA Career== |
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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.<ref>https://women.nasa.gov/ginger-kerrick/</ref><ref>http://gov.texas.gov/women/txwomen_hof/hof_kerrick</ref> She became the first non-astronaut Capsule Communicator (Capcom)<ref>https://women.nasa.gov/ginger-kerrick/</ref>, first Russian-training-integration instructor,<ref>http://gov.texas.gov/women/txwomen_hof/hof_kerrick</ref> |
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.<ref>https://women.nasa.gov/ginger-kerrick/</ref><ref>http://gov.texas.gov/women/txwomen_hof/hof_kerrick</ref> She became the first non-astronaut Capsule Communicator (Capcom)<ref>https://women.nasa.gov/ginger-kerrick/</ref>, first Russian-training-integration instructor,<ref>http://gov.texas.gov/women/txwomen_hof/hof_kerrick</ref> |
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and the first Hispanic female NASA Flight Director in 2005<ref>https://www.aps.org/careers/physicists/profiles/kerrick.cfm</ref><ref>http://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/arts/2016/03/08/nm-museum-space-history-nasas-first-woman-hispanic-flight-director-speak-museum/81434608/</ref><ref>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</ref> |
and the first Hispanic female NASA Flight Director in 2005<ref>https://www.aps.org/careers/physicists/profiles/kerrick.cfm</ref><ref>http://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/arts/2016/03/08/nm-museum-space-history-nasas-first-woman-hispanic-flight-director-speak-museum/81434608/</ref><ref>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</ref> There, she currently serves as [[Flight controller|Flight Director]] with NASA’s [[Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center]].<ref>https://women.nasa.gov/ginger-kerrick/</ref> where she creates plans for scenarios of astronauts in space<ref>https://www.aps.org/careers/physicists/profiles/kerrick.cfm</ref> Kerrick is a member of the [https://www.aps.org/ American Physical Society] (APS). |
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Revision as of 00:12, 9 March 2017
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] She became the first non-astronaut Capsule Communicator (Capcom)[7], first Russian-training-integration instructor,[8] and the first Hispanic female NASA Flight Director in 2005[9][10][11] There, she currently serves as Flight Director with NASA’s Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center.[12] where she creates plans for scenarios of astronauts in space[13] 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
- ^ 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