The two directorates will work together with each other, but also the remaining three (the Science, Space Technology, and Aeronautics Research directorates) in order to achieve NASA’s overarching goals. “We’ll work closely across mission directorates to achieve even greater successes to come, including expanding the low-Earth orbit economy, launching our state-of-the-art science missions, and getting ready for future operations at the Moon and Mars,” Lueders said. Kathy Lueders, who was associate administrator of HEOMD, will now lead the Space Operations directorate which will focus on commercializing low-Earth orbit, ISS operations, launch and space operations, and eventually sustained operations around the Moon.
Jim Free, a long-time NASA leader, will return to the agency as associate administrator of the directorate.
The Exploration Systems Development directorate will oversee the Artemis program and future Mars crewed exploration. This also will allow the United States to maintain its leadership in space for decades to come,” Nelson said. “This reorganization positions NASA and the United States for success as we venture farther out into the cosmos than ever before, all while supporting the continued commercialization of space and research on the International Space Station. 21, 2021, that HEOMD would be split back into its former directorates. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announced on Sept. Now that Artemis is preparing to launch, this merger is no longer needed and is being reversed. human spaceflight capability, merging the two directorates was necessary. Due to what would become a nine-year gap in U.S. HEOMD was created after the Shuttle and Constellation programs ended as a merger of the Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate (ESDMD) and the Space Operations Mission Directorate (SOMD). The most major of these changes came in the form of the dissolution of the Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate (HEOMD), which oversaw human spaceflight in NASA from 2011 to 2021. As the program approaches its first flights, sweeping changes across NASA’s organizational structure are underway, as well as new rounds of contracting to prepare the agency for routine and operational crewed lunar missions through the 2030s. 23, 2021–NASA’s Artemis program, the crewed exploration program with the stated goal of returning humanity to the Moon for the first time since Apollo 17, is just a few months away from its first major launch, Artemis I. A view of the Artemis I vehicle stack looking up through High Bay 3, during the umbilical retract test.
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