NASA Goddard Center Director Makenzie Lystrup Set to Depart
NASA announced on Monday that Dr. MAKENZIE LYYTRUP, director of the Goddard Space Flight Center in NASA in Greenbelt, is expected to leave the agency on Friday August 1.
As Director of the Center of Goddard, a role she has occupied since April 2023, Lystrup was also responsible for the management of the management and management of several other NASA fields, notably Wallops Flight Facility in Virginie, Katherine Johnson independent Verification & Validation Facility in West Virginia, the White Sands complex and The Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility in Texas.
“Having played a variety of civil and government roles in science and aerospace in his career, Makenzie has led the development and / or contributed to a variety of priority scientific missions of NASA, in particular successful operations of our James Web space telescope and the imagery of the polardetry of X Explorer, as well as the development of the spatial novel administrator of the agency, and Plus,, ”said Vanessa Wyche, actor of NASA acrite. “We are grateful to Makenzie for his leadership at NASA Goddard for more than two years, including his work to inspire a golden age of explorers, scientists and engineers.”
Throughout his stay at NASA, Lystrup directed Goddard’s workforce, which consists of more than 8,000 civil servants and entrepreneurs. Before joining the agency, Lystrup was main director of advanced Ball’s civil space and commercial development systems, where it managed new commercial activities for NASA, the Oceanic and Atmospheric National Administration (NOAA) and other American civilian government agencies as well as for university universities and other scientific organizations. In addition, she sat on the organization of company strategic operations, based in Washington, where she directed the Ball Space Sciences portfolio.
Before joining Ball, Lyystrup worked as a merry -degree Institute of Physics – Acoustical Society of American Congression Fellow from 2011 to 2012 where she managed a portfolio including technology, national defense, nuclear energy and nuclear non -proliferation.
Lystrup also sat on the boards of directors and committees for several organizations to include the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, International Society for Optics and Photonic, the University of Colorado and the American Astronomical Society. She was appointed American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow in 2019 for her distinguished file in the fields of planetary science and infrared astronomy, politics and scientific plea and aerospace management. Lystrup also served as an American volunteer focused on STEM education.
Lystrup holds a baccalaureate in Portland State University physics and attended a school superior to the London College University which earned it a doctorate in astrophysics. She was a postdoctoral researcher of the National Science Foundation and postdoctoral research by spending time at the laboratory of atmospheric and spatial physics in Boulder, Colorado and at the University of Liege in Belgium. As a planetary scientist and astronomer, the scientific work of Lystrup has been to use soil and spatial astronomical observatories to understand the interactions and dynamics of planetary atmospheres and magnetosphères – relations between planets and their surrounding space environments.
After the departure of Lystrup, Cynthia Simmons de La NASA will serve as director of the interim center. Simmons is the current deputy director of the center.
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