Black History Month at Glenn
In honor of Black History Month this February, explore the stories of employees at NASA's Glenn Research Center who are making the agency's missions possible.
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Ernest Williams
As an electrical engineer, Ernest Williams helped test NASA’s X-59 aircraft.
Jarred Wilhite
Aerospace engineer Jarred Wilhite supported testing of NASA’s Orion spacecraft.
Concha Reid
Concha Reid supports Artemis, serving as deputy manager for the Space Science Project Office.
Jamesa Stokes
There is no required path to becoming a scientist or engineer nor is there one way a scientist or engineer is supposed to act or look,” says NASA Glenn engineer Jamesa Stokes, who works to understand how advanced materials behave in the extreme environments of space. Learn about her journey to NASA.
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Lyndsey McMillon-Brown
McMillon-Brown works with solar cells, which convert energy from light into electricity. As a research electrical engineer, she designs and develops solar cells to be more affordable, efficient, and lightweight for use on Earth and in space. McMillon-Brown is developing a new type of solar cell made from Perovskite, a lightweight, flexible, and cost-effective material. McMillon-Brown and her team are enhancing durability and testing design variations on the International Space Station.
Carl Sandifer
NASA’s Radioisotope Power Systems Program works in partnership with the Department of Energy to enable missions to operate in some of the most extreme environments in our solar system and interstellar space. Being part of a great team managing space science projects inspires Carl Sandifer II to get up every morning excited about his work. His advice—don’t be afraid, nothing is unachievable.
