Ginger Kerrick
Ginger Kerrick is an American Physicist from El Paso, Texas.
Education
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 Technical University.[3] Kerrick completed her Thesis in 1993 on '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] where 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