Lueders was among a group of officials credited with leading the U.S. Private moon landers from other companies are to be picked in a later contract program. In 2021, she was the NASA source selection official who picked SpaceX's Starship rocket for a $3 billion Artemis contract to land the first U.S. Lueders spent 31 years at NASA and retired in April. SpaceX did not immediately return a request for comment. The source who confirmed the hiring of Lueders, first reported by CNBC, spoke on condition of anonymity. Lueders, the second former NASA human spaceflight chief to retire and move to SpaceX in recent years, represents another key hire for the company as it races to develop and use Starship for landing NASA astronauts on the moon within the next decade. WASHINGTON, May 15 (Reuters) - Elon Musk's SpaceX has tapped NASA's former human spaceflight boss Kathy Lueders to help oversee development of the company's moon and Mars rocket called Starship, a person familiar with the hire said on Monday.
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