According to NASA Ames, on the STMD-ECI project, she leads the controls team to develop unconventional control techniques for deployable vehicles, to enable precision landing and improve maneuverability during the entry, descent, and landing phases of spaceflight.
The STMD-ECI project is a $2.5 million-dollar project that she proposed and won as part of a six-member early- career scientist team. Okolo was only 26 years old when she became the first black woman to obtain a Ph.D. in aerospace engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington. She earned both undergraduate and doctoral degrees in aerospace engineering from UT Arlington. Dr. Okolo is a shero and inspiration to little black girls, and girls all around the world to aspire to work in STEM, she is #BlackExcellence personified.
— Dr. Wendy A. Okolo (@wendy_okolo) February 17, 2019
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That's my sister!!!!!!!!
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