2024 Community Leaders Update

NASA Kennedy Space Center Director Janet Petro, with senior leaders of NASA and center programs, holds a Community Leaders Update on Thursday, May 23, 2024, at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. The panel discussed how programs based at NASA Kennedy support the agency’s efforts to return humans to the Moon and prepare for Mars, and they answered questions from guests. From second to left, Jenny Lyons, deputy manager, Launch Services Program; Dana Hutcherson, deputy manager, Commercial Crew Program; Jeremy Parsons, deputy manager, Exploration Ground Systems; Emilio Cruz, deputy director, Exploration Research and Technology Programs; and Mark Weise, manager, Gateway Deep Space Logistics.