Ginger Kerrick is an American physicistatNASA’s Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center. She was the first Hispanic female to be Flight Director at NASA.[1]
Kerrick graduated second in her class from Hanks High School in El Paso, Texas and was named El Paso Female Athlete of the Year.[1][2] She started her college degree at the University of Texas at El Paso, where she walked onto their women's basketball team.[2] During the first game of the season, she blew out her knee, ending her basketball career.[2] She then transferred to Texas Tech University to get her Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science in physics.[3] Her 1993 master's thesis was entitled 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] Kerrick interviewed for the astronaut program, but was disqualified for kidney stones.[7] She became the first non-astronaut Capsule Communicator (Capcom),[5] first Russian-training-integration instructor,[6] and the first Hispanic female NASA Flight Director in 2005.[8][1][9] She currently serves as Flight Director with NASA’s Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center.[5] There, she creates plans for scenarios of astronauts in space.[8] Kerrick is a member of the American Physical Society (APS).
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