Meet Helen Hwang

May 15, 2020 July 5, 2022

I help spacecraft enter atmospheres of other worlds.

Meet Helen Hwang, project manager of the Entry Systems Technology Division at NASA’s Ames Research Center. Helen works on new heat shield technologies that will give us the ability to go to worlds like Titan or Venus. To learn more about her work, visit: https://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/entry-systems-and-technology

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