On Monday, NASA introduced Dr. Makenzie Lystrup, director of NASA’s Goddard House Flight Heart in Greenbelt, Maryland, is ready to go away the company on Friday, Aug. 1.
As heart director of Goddard, a task she has held since April 2023, Lystrup additionally was accountable for guiding the route and administration of a number of different NASA discipline installations together with Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, Katherine Johnson Unbiased Verification & Validation Facility in West Virginia, the White Sands Advanced in New Mexico, and the Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility in Texas.
“Having served in a wide range of science and aerospace civilian and authorities roles in her profession, Makenzie has led improvement of, and/or contributed to a wide range of NASA’s precedence science missions together with profitable operations of our James Webb House Telescope and Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer, in addition to improvement of the company’s Roman House Telescope, and extra,” stated Vanessa Wyche, performing NASA affiliate administrator. “We’re grateful to Makenzie for her management at NASA Goddard for greater than two years, together with her work to encourage a Golden Age of explorers, scientists, and engineers.”
All through her time at NASA, Lystrup led Goddard’s workforce, which consists of greater than 8,000 civil servants and contractors. Earlier than becoming a member of the company, Lystrup served as senior director for Ball’s Civil House Superior Techniques and Enterprise Growth, the place she managed new enterprise actions for NASA, Nationwide Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and different civilian U.S. authorities companies in addition to for academia and different science organizations. As well as, she served within the firm’s Strategic Operations group, based mostly in Washington the place she led Ball’s area sciences portfolio.
Previous to becoming a member of Ball, Lystrup labored as an American Institute of Physics – Acoustical Society of American Congressional Fellow from 2011 to 2012 the place she managed a portfolio together with know-how, nationwide protection, nuclear power, and nuclear nonproliferation.
Lystrup additionally has served on boards and committees for a number of organizations to incorporate the College Company for Atmospheric Analysis, Worldwide Society for Optics and Photonic, the College of Colorado, and the American Astronomical Society. She was named an American Affiliation for the Development of Science fellow in 2019 for her distinguished report within the fields of planetary science and infrared astronomy, science coverage and advocacy, and aerospace management. Lystrup additionally served as an AmeriCorps volunteer specializing in STEM training.
Lystrup holds a bachelor’s in physics from Portland State College and attended graduate college at College Faculty London incomes her doctorate in astrophysics. She was a Nationwide Science Basis Astronomy & Astrophysics Postdoctoral Analysis Fellow spending time on the Laboratory for Atmospheric & House Physics in Boulder, Colorado, and College of Liege in Belgium. As a planetary scientist and astronomer, Lystrup’s scientific work has been in utilizing ground- and space-based astronomical observatories to grasp the interactions and dynamics of planetary atmospheres and magnetospheres – the relationships between planets and their surrounding area environments.
Following Lystrup’s departure, NASA’s Cynthia Simmons will function performing heart director. Simmons is the present deputy heart director.
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