NASA flight systems engineer Terrie M. Gardner has received
a Federal Women's Program Outstanding Achievement Award from NASA's Marshall
Space Flight Center in Huntsville.
The honor, which commemorates Women's Equality Day,
recognizes outstanding achievement and exceptional service to the Marshall
Center and to NASA's mission. Awards are presented in three categories --
professional, administrative and supervisory. Gardner was honored in the
professional category.
NASA flight systems engineer Terrie M. Gardner has received a Federal Women's Program Outstanding Achievement Award from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville
Gardner works in technical management within a division of
the Marshall Engineering Directorate's Spacecraft and Vehicle Systems
Department. From August 2012 to August 2013, she was the review director for
the Space Launch System Preliminary Design Review -- a newly completed
milestone which validates the detailed design and integration of NASA's
next-generation heavy-lift launch vehicle and ensures the program -- pending
agency approval -- is ready to begin implementation for the first full-scale
test flight in 2017.
Women's Equality Day, celebrated each Aug. 26 by
presidential proclamation, honors certification of the 19th amendment to the
U.S. Constitution on Aug. 26, 1920, granting women the right to vote.
Beginning her NASA career in 1990 as a materials engineer,
Gardner spent the next 16 years performing materials, selection and control
duties for mission-critical activities in support of Marshall-managed science
hardware and systems. These included the Chandra X-ray Observatory, launched to
space in 1999 to conduct X-ray studies of the cosmos; the Environmental Control
and Life Support System, the International Space Station's regenerative,
cost-saving life support hardware; and the Materials Science Research Rack,
enabling intensive study of metals, ceramics, glasses, crystals and other
materials in the space station's microgravity environment.