Biography:Ginger Kerrick

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Ginger Kerrick is an American physicist at NASA’s Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center.

Education

Kerrick graduated from Hanks High School in El Paso, 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 Tech University.[3] Her 1993 master's thesis was entitled Infrared deep level transient spectroscopy.[4]

NASA career

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.[2][1][8] 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.[2] Kerrick is a member of the American Physical Society (APS).

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