Ann Micklos, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Engineer, Merritt Island, Florida

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For the Horological Society of New York’s March 2021 lecture, former NASA Engineer Ann Micklos will discuss the general history of watches in spaceflight, which leads to her personal story about a watch that flew on a Space Shuttle. The watch was a gift that had the honor to fly on Columbia, STS-107. Unfortunately, Columbia and her crew were lost during her entry into Earth’s atmosphere. However, the pain for losing the crew and Columbia was slightly dulled with a watch which was meant to get back to her owner.

About Ann Micklos

Ann Micklos is a retired NASA engineer with 33 years of experience residing at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. She had been with the Space Shuttle program for 112 launches, including leading the Space Shuttle Columbia’s Reconstruction effort. She completed her engineering career with NASA’s Launch Services Program with 38 launches including multiple science missions on SpaceX, Atlas V, Delta II and Pegasus rockets. Now in her spare time, she is capturing various moments of time and space on her website, www.BluePlanetPhotos.org.

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Photo credit: Blue Planet Photos