About Lisa Hardaway
Lived 1967 – 2017 (aged 49–50). Lisa Hardaway was an American military flight engineer.
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. and University of Colorado Boulder. 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.
In the summer of 2017, NASA renamed the LEISA spectrometer on New Horizons to be the Lisa Hardaway Infrared Mapping Spectrometer in her honor.
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Who was Lisa Hardaway?
spacecraft designer
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Lisa Hardaway was born in 1967.
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Lisa Hardaway died in 2017.
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Lisa Hardaway was a military flight engineer.
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Lisa Hardaway was American.
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