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Sandra Irish, mechanical systems lead structures engineer for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, has been selected to receive the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) Resnik Challenger Medal Award for her visionary contributions to the development, testi
Sandra Irish, mechanical systems lead structures engineer for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, has been selected to receive the Society of Women Engineers
Irish was a Hearst Foundations Executive and former President of Hearst Newspapers
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LOS ANGELES — For some people, it’s a memoir or a work of fiction; others, their first company or app. For Scott Willoughby, it’s a more than 13,000-pound telescope that must unfold while in space and work in cryogenic temperatures. “Webb is my middle child,” Willoughby said of the James Webb Space
The James Webb Space Telescope launches to space Christmas Day, the culmination of two decades of work: 'It feels like we sprinted a marathon.'