1. Ginger Kerrick is an American physicist at NASA's Lyndon B Johnson Space Center.
11 Facts About Ginger Kerrick
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Ginger Kerrick is the first Hispanic female to be flight director at NASA.
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Ginger Kerrick started her college degree at the University of Texas at El Paso, where she walked onto their women's basketball team.
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Ginger Kerrick then transferred to Texas Tech University to get her Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science in physics.
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Ginger 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.
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Ginger Kerrick interviewed for the astronaut program, but was disqualified for kidney stones.
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Ginger Kerrick became the first non-astronaut Capsule Communicator, first Russian-training-integration instructor, and the first Hispanic female NASA flight director in 2005.
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Ginger Kerrick served as flight director with NASA's Lyndon B Johnson Space Center from 2005 to 2012.
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Ginger Kerrick currently is the division chief of the Flight Integration Division in FOD since August 2016.
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Ginger Kerrick is a member of the American Physical Society.
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In November 2021 Ginger Kerrick decided to quit her engagement at NASA and moved to Barrios Technology, LTD in Houston, Texas where she took over the role as Chief Strategy Officer.