Lisa Hardaway Explained
| Lisa Hardaway |
| Nationality: | American |
| Module: | | Discipline: | Aerospace Engineering | | Institutions: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Stanford University,
University of Colorado | | Employer: | Ball Aerospace | | Significant Projects: | New Horizons |
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Lisa Hardaway (1966–2017) was an American aerospace engineer and program manager for an instrument on the New Horizons spacecraft to Pluto and Beyond. Among her awards, she was named Engineer of the Year for 2015–2016 by the Colorado American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Life
Hardaway graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University,[1] and University of Colorado. She worked for Ball Aerospace. She was program manager for RALPH, on the New Horizons mission. She is survived by her husband, James, and two children. [2]
In the summer of 2017, NASA renamed the LEISA spectrometer on New Horizons to be the Lisa Hardaway Infrared Mapping Spectrometer in her honor.[3]
Awards and honors
External links
- https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/voices/gone-in-2017-12-trailblazing-women-in-stem/
- https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/07/the-camera-behind-the-new-horizons-pluto-photos-ralph/398549/
- https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ball-aerospaces-lisa-hardaway-honored-for-exceptional-leadership-by-women-in-aerospace-300163309.html
- https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-s-new-horizons-mission-honors-memory-of-engineer-lisa-hardaway
Notes and References
- Web site: Lisa Hardaway, Ph.D.. 3 October 2014. 19 January 2018.
- Web site: Lisa Hardaway, pioneering Ball Aerospace engineer in Boulder, dies at 50. 26 January 2017. 19 January 2018.
- Web site: NASA's New Horizons Mission Honors Memory of Engineer Lisa Hardaway. Gipson. Lillian. 2017-06-23. NASA. 2018-12-19.
