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The Life Scientific: Ginger Kerrick

October 5, 2026

Jim Al-Khalili (0:00)

Yesterday is a physicist whose childhood dream of becoming an astronaut led to a three-decade career at NASA, helping shape the future of human spaceflight. Ginger Kerrick fell in love with space at the age of five after finding a book about astronauts at her local library in El Paso, Texas. By her twenties, after…

For some people, that might have been the end of the story. For Ginger, it was just the beginning. She went on to become NASA's first non-astronaut capsule communicator, serving as the voice linking mission control to astronauts.

Ginger Kerrick (1:18)

Thank you so much.

Jim Al-Khalili (1:20)

Ginger, you've been involved in human spaceflight from the shuttle era right through to early planning, for the Artemis and Mars missions. What would you say are the biggest scientific shifts you've seen over that time? Has anything come in and just completely blown up the status quo?

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