Dr. Deborah Barnhart: Aerospace Icon Passes Away

0:00From the Daily News Now Network, this is Corey with Birmingham News Today. Dr. Deborah Edwards-Barnhart, a key figure in Huntspil's aerospace world, passed away early Wednesday morning at age 73. She served as CEO Emerita of the US Space and Rocket Center after a standout career there. She led the center as CEO and executive director for nine years until retiring in 2019. During her final year, the museum and space camp hit record attendance highs, and she guided celebrations for the 50th anniversary of the Apollo. 11 Moon Landing-Barnhart boosted the center's finances in staff morale during tough times early on. She steered it towards self-sustainability and spent nearly 40 years in various roles, always championing young people in science and exploration. With her signature sayings, beyond the center, she held vice president positions at three defense companies and earned top honors like NASA's Distinguished Public Service Medal.

1:00The age is the highest civilian award. In her memory, center leaders created the Dr. Deborah Edwards-Barnhart endowed scholarship to fund future engineers, scientists, and astronauts after. Her brief illness. A quick thank you to our sponsor of today's episode, Some Chase Peace. I'll put my head in it. That's O.L.I.SOLYPILLOW.COM.