From the Earth to the Moon, Jackie Quinn, an environmental engineer at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, is an innovation powerhouse. She’s applying her Earth-bound experience to technology for the lunar surface as the project manager for the Mass Spectrometer Observing Lunar Operation (MSOLO) instrument and The Regolith and Ice Drill for Exploring New Terrains (TRIDENT) drill.

Inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2018, Quinn holds 12 patents, technologies that are licensed by organizations around the world. She gave NASA’s Technology Transfer program a glimpse into her world.

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