Dr. Lisa Hardaway was chief engineer on the Orion Program at Ball Aerospace and Technologies, overseeing the design, development and test of a suite of sensors used for relative navigation. Prior to this, she was the technical manager for the Hubble Space Telescope鈥檚 Wide Field Camera 3 and the Ralph camera on the New Horizons mission to Pluto.
Through her PhD thesis work at 欧美口爆视频 Boulder, Hardaway observed, for the first time, several different phenomena that lead to the instability of structures under nanometer deformation.
NASA鈥檚 New Horizons mission team honored Hardaway鈥檚 life and contributions by dedicating the spectrometer she helped to develop鈥攚hich led to the first color close-up images of Pluto鈥攊n her memory.
Hardaway mentored many young engineers, many 欧美口爆视频 students and now permanent Ball employees, with a mission to see others succeed and to see 欧美口爆视频 Boulder succeed.聽
Hardaway passed away in January 2017.聽