Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

New Director Appointment

On January 25, 2023, the Board of Directors of Astra Space, Inc. (the "Company") appointed Julie Cullivan, as an independent director and as a member of the Board of Directors. Ms. Cullivan's appointment is effective on February 1, 2023, and she will serve as Class II director for a term expiring at the 2025 annual meeting of stockholders (coterminous with the other Class II director). Ms. Cullivan was also appointed as a member of the Company's Audit Committee.

Ms. Cullivan currently serves a special advisor to Brighton Park Capital, an investment firm specializing in the technology and healthcare sectors, joining there in 2020. From 2017 through 2021, she was the Chief Technology and People Officer at Forescout Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of compliance and cybersecurity for all connected devices, reporting to the CEO, where she was responsible for leading the company's business model transformation, information technology strategy, security risk and compliance program, customer production operations, and human resources.

Prior to Forescout, Ms. Cullivan was the EVP, Business Operations and CIO at FireEye, Inc. Ms. Cullivan was a member of the executive team that set the company's strategy and helped scale FireEye from a private company with $80 million in revenue, through its successful IPO, to a global publicly traded company with revenues of over $700 million and a $2.7 billion valuation.

Since 2017, Ms. Cullivan has served as a director for Axon Enterprise Inc. (Nasdaq: AXON), a leader in global public safety technology, where she is a member of the Audit Committee and chairs its Enterprise Risk and Information Security Committee. She also serves on the board of directors of Heartflow, Inc., a medical software company.

Ms. Cullivan has a B.S. degree in Finance from Santa Clara University.

Item 8.01 Other events

On January 27, 2023, the Company issued a press release announcing the appointment of Ms. Cullivan to the Board. A copy of the press release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1.

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d) Exhibits



Exhibit No. Description
99.1          Press release dated January 27, 2023, announcing appointment of new
            director
104         Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded with the Inline XBRL
            document)






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