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Awards & Recognition
★NASA Distinguished Service Medal (2017)
★Time Magazine Best Invention of 2007
★AIAA Fellow (2018)
★Women in Aerospace Leadership Award (2017)
★MIT Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellow (2000)
★Lowell Thomas Award - Explorer's Club (2018)
★Society of Women Engineers 35 World's Most Influential Women Engineers (2021)
★Honorary Doctorates from Dartmouth College, Royal College of Art, University of Minho
★Aerospace Medical Association Henry L. Taylor Award (2016-17)
★AIAA Jeffries Aerospace Medicine and Life Sciences Research Award (2018)
Notable Facts
→Former NASA Deputy Administrator (2015-2017) - first female engineer in this role
→Former Director of MIT Media Lab (2021-present)
→Apollo Program Professor of Astronautics at MIT
→Inventor of the BioSuit planetary spacesuit system
→Principal investigator on 4 spaceflight missions
→Author of 300+ research papers and holds multiple patents
→Served on multiple corporate boards including The Aerospace Corporation
→Co-Chair of World Economic Forum Global Future Council on Space Technologies
→Honored with Mattel Barbie doll inspired by her work (2019)
→BioSuit exhibited at major museums including Metropolitan Museum of Art
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