Kirk Shireman – Spaceflight Now

June 25, 2022

Breaking News

[ June 23, 2022 ] European probe images Mercury’s cratered landscape on second flyby Mission Reports
[ June 23, 2022 ] Second segment added to Starship launch tower at Kennedy Space Center Mission Reports
[ June 23, 2022 ] ULA’s next launch for Space Force is less than a week away Atlas 5
[ June 22, 2022 ] Ariane 5 rocket deploys satellites for Malaysia and India Ariane 5
[ June 22, 2022 ] NASA not planning another Artemis 1 countdown dress rehearsal Artemis

NASA’s space station program manager retiring from agency

June 17, 2020

Kirk Shireman, NASA’s program manager for the International Space Station, is retiring from the space agency later this month to take a position in private industry.

SpaceX ready to return to the space station

April 7, 2016

Ground crews loaded time-critical experiments, including 20 mice to help scientists study muscle atrophy, into SpaceX’s commercial Dragon cargo capsule Thursday, a day before a launch planned from Cape Canaveral toward the International Space Station.

NASA space station program manager stepping down

August 5, 2015

Mike Suffredini, manager of NASA’s International Space Station program, is stepping down after 10 years overseeing the lab’s final assembly and transition to post-shuttle operations, the agency said Wednesday. Kirk Shireman, deputy director of the Johnson Space Center, will take over as program manager.