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Former Georgia resident named ‘Outstanding Achiever’ at NASA Marshall Center
Lorna Graves Jackson, an electrical engineer and aerospace technologist at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., was honored this week with an Outstanding Achievement Award for service to the Marshall Center and NASA.
Photo: Jackson (NASA/MSFC)
Lorna Graves Jackson, an electrical engineer and aerospace technologist at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., was honored this week with an Outstanding Achievement Award for service to the Marshall Center and NASA.
The award was presented Aug. 26, during a Women’s Equality Day ceremony at the Center. Jackson was recognized for her technical ability, creativity and leadership in the Avionics Department at the Marshall Center.
Nominations for Women’s Equality Day awards were made by Marshall employees, based on traits that demonstrate professional excellence, including job performance, leadership, mentoring and self-development.
A 1977 graduate of Columbia High School in Decatur, Ga., Jackson earned an associate of arts degree at the Oxford College of Emory University in Oxford, Ga., in 1979, and graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta in 1982 with a degree in electrical engineering.
A Marshall Center employee since 1986, Jackson is the avionics lead engineer for vehicle integrated performance analysis activities on NASA’s Space Launch Initiative – a NASA-wide research and development program designed to improve safety, reliability and cost effectiveness of space travel for second-generation reusable launch vehicles. The program is managed by the Marshall Center.
Jackson has worked on many of the Marshall’s top programs, providing power subsystem design, engineering development, testing and documentation for the Hubble Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory. Jackson also has played a key role as an avionics lead subsystem engineer for systems studies on the Space Launch Initiative.
Jackson has received several awards during her career, including a NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal and a Space Flight Awareness “Honoree,” which recognizes employees for their dedication to quality work and flight safety. Jackson volunteers as a mentor for three of Marshall’s education programs, and was instrumental in organizing an open house for the Avionics Department.
Jackson and her husband Kurt, also a Marshall Center avionics engineer, have two children, Quinn and Paige. Born in Boston, Mass., where she grew up in the suburb of Everett, Jackson finished high school in the Atlanta, Ga., area. Jackson is the daughter of Paul and Olive Adler of Ocala, Fla.
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