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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 |
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 name=":0">https://women.nasa.gov/ginger-kerrick/</ref><ref name=":1">http://gov.texas.gov/women/txwomen_hof/hof_kerrick</ref> She became the first non-astronaut Capsule Communicator (Capcom)<ref name=":0" />, 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 |
and the first Hispanic female NASA Flight Director in 2005<ref name=":1" /><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> where 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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Ginger Kerrick is an American Physicist from El Paso, Texas.
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]
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)[5], first Russian-training-integration instructor,[7] and the first Hispanic female NASA Flight Director in 2005[6][8][9] where she currently serves as Flight Director with NASA’s Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center.[10] where she creates plans for scenarios of astronauts in space[11] Kerrick is a member of the American Physical Society (APS).
