{"id":191081,"date":"2022-10-13T22:09:13","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T22:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=191081"},"modified":"2022-10-13T22:21:50","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T22:21:50","slug":"puerto-rico-woman-making-strides-in-nasa-research-for-artemis-moon-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/puerto-rico-woman-making-strides-in-nasa-research-for-artemis-moon-mission","title":{"rendered":"Puerto Rico woman making strides in NASA research for Artemis moon mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At NASA&#8217;s Glenn Research Center, past all the spacecraft and rockets, you&#8217;ll find Dionne Hernandez-Lugo working on power systems that will soon propel astronauts back to the Moon. Hernandez-Lugo&#8217;s story started in Puerto Rico, where she fell in love with space at a young age. &#8220;NASA was my dream. Growing up, I will see a shuttle launch on TV and I always wanted to come and work here,&#8221; said Hernandez-Lugo, the deputy flight system manager for the power propulsion element. But being on a small island, NASA seemed so far. &#8220;You don&#8217;t have a NASA center, you don&#8217;t have this type of representation of heavy scientists and researchers from NASA,&#8221; said Hernandez-Lugo. But she didn&#8217;t let that stop her. Once she got to the University of Puerto Rico, she studied NASA research on her way to a chemistry degree. &#8220;So that allowed me to apply for the NASA fellowship, called the Harriet Jenkins Fellowship,&#8221; said Hernandez-Lugo. From there, her career<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At NASA&#8217;s Glenn Research Center, past all the spacecraft and rockets, you&#8217;ll find Dionne Hernandez working on power systems that will soon propel astronauts back to the Moon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,1],"tags":[186,296,27,44,185],"class_list":["post-191081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-news","tag-aerospace-defense","tag-apple-tv","tag-economy","tag-industry","tag-science"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}