Inspire, Fall/Winter 2008

a Vision the job. So instead, Stacie decided to accept a position at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. She also enrolled in and received a scholarship to the Air Force Institute of Technology. But the Monday after graduating from Cedarville, Stacie headed in another direction. Remember the supervisor at NASA who couldn’t hire her yet? Apparently, the approvals he needed came through because he called Stacie while she was on a post-graduation vacation and offered her a job. That August she moved to Houston. She started out doing basic research and design for several years, moving from project to project until she was, finally, put on a true flight project. “After the Columbia accident,” she said, “we had a ‘return to flight’ effort. The next three flights tested the new capabilities for inspection and damage detection. It was a concentrated effort to return the Space Shuttle Program to safe operation.” “she is proving to others – and herself – just what people can accomplish when they put their minds to it.” Cedarville University 11