Exit interview Christine Anderson

摘要

In early 2011, the administration of New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez approached Christine Anderson about becoming executive director of the New Mexico Spaceport Authority, which runs Spaceport America. Anderson had recently retired from a 30-year civilian career in the U.S. Air Force that included serving as director of several military space offices. She agreed to take the job for a year. At the time, Spaceport America was still wrapping up construction of its major facilities in a remote section of southern New Mexico for its anchor tenant, Virgin Galactic. The hope then was that Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo would soon be ready to fly from the spaceport. However, delays in its development, including a 2014 crash, forced Anderson to accelerate efforts to diversify the spaceport's customer base.