Lisa Hardaway
Lisa Hardaway | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Engineering career | |
| Discipline | Aerospace Engineering |
| Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, University of Colorado |
| Employer(s) | Ball Aerospace |
| Projects | New Horizons |
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.[1]
Life
Hardaway graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University,[2] and University of Colorado. She worked for Ball Aerospace. She was program manager for RALPH, on the New Horizons mission.[3]
In the summer of 2017, NASA renamed the LEISA channel in her honor.[4]
Lisa made incredible contributions to New Horizons and our success in exploring Pluto, and we wanted to celebrate those contributions in a special way by dedicating the LEISA spectrometer in her honor
— New Horizons principal investigator[4]
Awards and honors
- Lisa Hardaway was named "Engineer of the Year" for 2015–2016 by Colorado American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.[1]
- Asteroid 161699 Lisahardaway was named in her memory.[5] The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 25 September 2018 (M.P.C. 111801).[6]
References
- ^ a b "Ball Aerospace's Lisa Hardaway Named Engineer of the Year by Colorado AIAA". www.prnewswire.com. Retrieved 19 January 2018.
- ^ "Lisa Hardaway, Ph.D." 3 October 2014. Retrieved 19 January 2018.
- ^ "Lisa Hardaway, pioneering Ball Aerospace engineer in Boulder, dies at 50". Retrieved 19 January 2018.
- ^ a b Gipson, Lillian (2017-06-23). "NASA's New Horizons Mission Honors Memory of Engineer Lisa Hardaway". NASA. Retrieved 2018-12-19.
- ^ "161699 Lisahardaway (2006 HR140)". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 17 October 2018.
- ^ "MPC/MPO/MPS Archive". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 17 October 2018.
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
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