Palmer Trinity School congratulates alum and NASA engineer Victoria Garcia for her work on NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft set to launch as part of Artemis I. The historic uncrewed flight test of the Orion spacecraft will fly farther than any spacecraft has ever flown and orbit the Moon. The launch is scheduled for Saturday, September 3, 2022 at 2:17 p.m.
During her time at Palmer Trinity School, Garcia excelled in the classroom. During her junior year, she earned the University of Miami Book Award awarded to juniors who exhibit outstanding leadership and academic excellence. As a senior she received the Nathan Young Award and the medallion for Physics Honors.
After graduating from Palmer Trinity School in 2001, Garcia earned a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2005 and interned at Kennedy Space Center/NASA that summer. Garcia has a MS from Georgia Institute of Technology and became one of the few women to join the team of engineers at Marshall Space Flight Center/NASA in 2008.
What makes Garcia’s story extraordinary is that she has been able to accomplish all this despite having been born deaf. Garcia never let her impairment stop her from achieving anything she wanted. She learned to read lips at an early age and worked hard to excel in school. She turned her love of problem solving into a career as a NASA engineer. For the past several years, Garcia has worked on the new Space Launch System.
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