Mines Nancy a le plaisir d’accueillir Erin Hayward, ingénieure à la NASA, pour une conférence “Surviving space : life as a materials engineer for NASA” suivie d’une session de questions/réponses le lundi 14 octobre de 17h à 18h en amphithéâtre 200. Retrouvez ci-dessous un extrait de sa présentation et une courte biographie. C’est l’occasion pour vous de lui poser toutes vos questions sur son métier, son parcours, et sur ses expériences de contrôleuse de vol pour l’ISS et d’astronaute analogue.
Surviving Space: life as a materials engineer for NASA
NASA conducts a huge variety of science and exploration missions across the solar system. One thing that all these missions have in common is that hardware must survive and perform in the harsh space environment. Dr. Erin Hayward will give an overview of the most important environmental factors that affect materials and technologies in space (including vacuum, radiation, thermal extremes, and more!), and share details of her experiences in conducting ground-based space environmental effects testing campaigns.
Dr. Erin Hayward joined NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) in 2017 as a member of the Space Environmental Effects Testing Team, part of the Non-Metallic Materials and Space Environmental Effects Branch at Marshall Space Flight Center (Huntsville, Alabama, USA). She has also trained as a payload flight controller for International Space Station and served as an analog astronaut. Before coming to NASA, Erin spent 18 months as a postdoctoral fellow at CEA (Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives) in Saclay, France. She graduated from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2012 with a PhD in Nuclear and Radiological Engineering, and received her Bachelor of Science in Physics from Tulane University in 2007.
