NASA Administrator Names New Goddard Center Director
WASHINGTON, April 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA Administrator Bill Nelson has named Dr. Makenzie Lystrup director of the agency's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, effective immediately.
- WASHINGTON, April 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA Administrator Bill Nelson has named Dr. Makenzie Lystrup director of the agency's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, effective immediately.
- She will make history as the first female center director at Goddard.
- Lystrup succeeds Dave Mitchell, who has served as Goddard's acting center director since January 2023, and now resumes his duties as the agency's chief program management officer at NASA Headquarters in Washington.
- As center director, she will lead a world-renowned team of scientists, engineers, and technologists focused on Earth and space science.