与杰瑞·C·埃利奥特一起庆祝美洲原住民遗产月
Jerry C. Elliott, a former NASA physicist and one of the first Native Americans hired at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, speaks during Native American Heritage Month event in 2017 at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.
He joined NASA in April 1966, as a Flight Mission Operations Engineer at NASA’s Mission Control Center and held technical and managerial positions with highly successful accomplishments in many fields including spacecraft systems, mission operations, astronaut crew equipment, scientific experiments and technical management.
Elliott received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest U.S. civilian honor, for duties as Retrofire Officer at NASA Mission Control Center during the aborted Apollo 13 space mission with the safe return of the flight crew.
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杰瑞·C·埃利奥特（Jerry C.Elliott）是前NASA物理学家，也是NASA约翰逊航天中心首批聘用的美洲原住民之一，他在2017年美国国家航空和航天局马歇尔太空飞行中心的美国原住民遗产月活动中发表讲话。
他于1966年4月加入NASA，担任NASA任务控制中心的飞行任务操作工程师，并担任技术和管理职务，在许多领域取得了非常成功的成就，包括航天器系统、任务操作、宇航员机组设备、科学实验和技术管理。
埃利奥特被授予总统自由勋章，这是美国公民的最高荣誉，因为他在阿波罗13号太空任务中担任NASA任务控制中心的点火官员，帮助机组人员安全返回。
图片来源: Emmett Given