洛娜·肯纳（Lorna Kenna）的日常工作正在帮助美国人重返月球。As vice president and general manager of the Jacobs Space Operations Group at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., she leads the team working past logistical and COVID-19-related challenges to assemble the Artemis 1 rocket in the space agency’s vehicle assembly building for a scheduled launch in March.
她的职责包括从确保火箭的工程性能到材料在空间中的反应以及将连接上述所有系统的系统进行反应的一切。
Kenna explains that the Jacobs team supports NASA’s exploration ground systems “in integration tests, checkout, and processing of the Artemis missions.”
That means working with manufacturers such as Boeing, logistics providers and the engineers doing the testing. “It is an honor,” she says, to represent the team with the “boots on the ground putting boots on the moon.”
当阿耳特弥斯1发射3月它将使用一个新的generation of space launch system rockets that will be NASA’s standard for the foreseeable future. In 2024, the program will send its first crewed lunar landing mission since Apollo 17 in 1972, including its first woman and first person of color.
肯纳（Kenna）与美国宇航局（NASA）的合作是雅各布斯（Jacobs）成为全球解决方案提供商的整体战略计划的一部分，并为全美最大的工程设计公司之一的工作提供了服务。肯纳（Kenna）以前曾在约翰逊航天中心（Johnson Space Center）担任资产管理，并担任雅各布斯（Jacobs）的IT总监在Cape Canaveral空军站工作。
Helping assemble, integrate and test “the most powerful rocket ever built would be a daunting challenge even in the best of times,” says Brad McCain, deputy general manager for Jacobs at Kennedy Space Center. “I would say the NASA exploration ground services/test and operations support contract team has performed exceptionally well” in accomplishing this mission during a worldwide pandemic with the societal issues that have arisen, he adds. “Lorna helped us focus on our work scope but still manage to foster collaboration.”
肯纳（Kenna）说，压倒性的任务既是雅各布斯（Jacobs）和美国国家航空航天局（NASA）对劳动力的关注和管理，包括沟通和遵守CDC指南。
NASA has not been immune to supply chain challenges, but the most difficult aspects of this project have been in the initial assembly and integration of the SLS/Orion spacecraft—the actual vehicle that will take astronauts from the rocket to the moon—and the extensive ground systems elements. But McCain said the team has worked through these issues and the logistical challenges as they have arisen.
麦凯恩补充说：“洛娜（Lorna）坚定而稳定的领导力帮助应对这些挑战……我们为团队表现如何感到自豪。”
