Awards & Recognition
★Distinguished Presidential Rank Award
★NASA Distinguished Service Medal
★2020 Woman in Aerospace Leadership Award
★2021 American Astronautical Society Spaceflight Achievement Award
★2022 Space Pioneer Award
★Space and Satellite Hall of Fame inductee 2021
★2022 National Academy of Engineering member
★SpaceNews Government Leader of the Year 2020
★IAASS 2019 Leonardo da Vinci Lifetime Achievement Award
Notable Facts
→First woman to head NASA human spaceflight program
→Led Commercial Crew Program that returned US human spaceflight capability in 2020
→Former SpaceX Starbase General Manager (2023-2025)
→Vice Chair of Texas Space Commission
→30+ year NASA career ending as Associate Administrator
→Reports directly to SpaceX COO Gwynne Shotwell
→Advisor to Vast Space for ISS successor development