NASA’s Sound Bites video series celebrates members of our workforce and shares their diverse experiences and insights. On this episode, we meet one of NASA’s Modern History Makers, Peggy Cornell, deputy manager of NASA’s Commercial Supersonic Technology project. Her work is helping revolutionize aviation and could make supersonic flight over land a possibility through NASA’s Quesst mission. Cornell also supports NASA’s X-57 Maxwell all-electric aircraft and previously worked on pioneering projects focused on electric vertical take-off and landing vehicles. As a kid, her love of aviation and space, and a desire to become an astronaut led Cornell to immerse herself in STEM. Although she did not become an astronaut, her perseverance and resolve have resulted in an engineering and management career supporting some of the agency’s most noteworthy missions and projects.
NASA is in a Golden Era of aeronautics and space exploration. In partnership with commercial and private businesses, NASA is currently making history with significant missions such as Artemis, X-57 Maxwell, and X-59 Quesst. The NASA’s Modern History Makers series highlights members of NASA Glenn’s workforce who make these remarkable missions possible
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