NSF Live: LOFTID, Psyche, and the NASA Tech Demos Team
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Today's NSF Live features chat
Today's NSF Live features chat and Q&A with members of the NASA Technology Demonstration Mission Team, who worked on the LOFTID inflatable heat shield test and are working on the future launch of the Psyche spacecraft. NASA's TDM bridges the gap between: need and means; scientific and engineering challenges and the technological innovations needed to overcome them; early proof-of-concept tests; and the final infusion of cost-effective, revolutionary new technologies into NASA, government and commercial space missions.
Today's show is hosted by Elysia Segal of Intrepid Museum, and John Galloway of NASASpaceflight.
GUEST BIOS:
Tawnya Plummer Laughinghouse
Tawnya Plummer Laughinghouse is Manager of the Technology Demonstration Missions (TDM) Program Office at MSFC. As a level 2 office, TDM is the largest program under NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate. Since 2018, over 6 TDM managed technology payloads have been launched to space by commercial launch providers or as rideshares on DOD missions.
Prior to joining TDM in 2017, Tawnya spent over 12 years as a Materials Engineer with the MSFC Materials and Processes Laboratory, providing expertise in nozzle ablative materials and thermal protection system (TPS) process support for solid and liquid rocket propulsion systems. Before joining NASA in 2004, she worked as a process chemist and product engineer in the manufacturing industry. Tawnya earned B.S. degrees from Spelman College and Georgia Tech in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, respectively. Tawnya also earned a M.S. in Management (with a concentration in Management of Technology) from the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Tawnya has been married to Scott Laughinghouse for 23 happy years, and they are the proud parents of a middle schooler and a high schooler.
Trudy Kortes
Ms. Trudy F. Kortes serves as the Director of Technology Demonstrations for NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate, managing more than $500M annually for the Agency to accomplish key technology advancements for future science and human exploration missions for the Agency and nation. Most recently, Trudy served as the Chief of the Human Exploration & Space Operations Division at Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio. In that role she had oversight for over $200 million annually in key agency work in the testing of the Orion spacecraft, the Space Launch System universal stage adapter, Human Research Program elements such as exercise devices, International Space Station biological and physical sciences, and advanced communications systems such as cognitive and quantum communications.
From 2015 to 2018, Trudy served as the Technology Demonstration Missions Program Executive and managed the growing portfolio of flight and ground demonstration projects. Under her leadership, the program successfully developed important technology flight demonstrations, including the Laser Communications Relay Demonstration, the Green Propellant Infusion Mission, Deep Space Atomic Clock, and the STMD technology investments onboard the Mars Perseverance rover. She has over 28 years of experience at NASA holding various institutional and programmatic positions at the Johnson Space Center, Ames Research Center, Glenn Research Center, and NASA Headquarters. Ms. Kortes is a federally certified program and project manager and has extensive experience in key systems engineering roles. She resides in Westlake, Ohio with her husband and three children.
If you are interested in using footage captured by this stream, please review our content use policy: https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/conte...
Today's show is hosted by Elysia Segal of Intrepid Museum, and John Galloway of NASASpaceflight.
GUEST BIOS:
Tawnya Plummer Laughinghouse
Tawnya Plummer Laughinghouse is Manager of the Technology Demonstration Missions (TDM) Program Office at MSFC. As a level 2 office, TDM is the largest program under NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate. Since 2018, over 6 TDM managed technology payloads have been launched to space by commercial launch providers or as rideshares on DOD missions.
Prior to joining TDM in 2017, Tawnya spent over 12 years as a Materials Engineer with the MSFC Materials and Processes Laboratory, providing expertise in nozzle ablative materials and thermal protection system (TPS) process support for solid and liquid rocket propulsion systems. Before joining NASA in 2004, she worked as a process chemist and product engineer in the manufacturing industry. Tawnya earned B.S. degrees from Spelman College and Georgia Tech in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, respectively. Tawnya also earned a M.S. in Management (with a concentration in Management of Technology) from the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Tawnya has been married to Scott Laughinghouse for 23 happy years, and they are the proud parents of a middle schooler and a high schooler.
Trudy Kortes
Ms. Trudy F. Kortes serves as the Director of Technology Demonstrations for NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate, managing more than $500M annually for the Agency to accomplish key technology advancements for future science and human exploration missions for the Agency and nation. Most recently, Trudy served as the Chief of the Human Exploration & Space Operations Division at Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio. In that role she had oversight for over $200 million annually in key agency work in the testing of the Orion spacecraft, the Space Launch System universal stage adapter, Human Research Program elements such as exercise devices, International Space Station biological and physical sciences, and advanced communications systems such as cognitive and quantum communications.
From 2015 to 2018, Trudy served as the Technology Demonstration Missions Program Executive and managed the growing portfolio of flight and ground demonstration projects. Under her leadership, the program successfully developed important technology flight demonstrations, including the Laser Communications Relay Demonstration, the Green Propellant Infusion Mission, Deep Space Atomic Clock, and the STMD technology investments onboard the Mars Perseverance rover. She has over 28 years of experience at NASA holding various institutional and programmatic positions at the Johnson Space Center, Ames Research Center, Glenn Research Center, and NASA Headquarters. Ms. Kortes is a federally certified program and project manager and has extensive experience in key systems engineering roles. She resides in Westlake, Ohio with her husband and three children.
If you are interested in using footage captured by this stream, please review our content use policy: https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/conte...
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