Kathryn C. Thornton is remembered in technology for work that changed what came after it.
The record lists Kathryn C. Thornton as American scientist and NASA astronaut.
Kathryn C. Thornton was born at Montgomery in 1952. Her recorded nationality is the United States. She was educated at Auburn University and University of Virginia.
The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.
Kathryn C. Thornton is described as astronaut, physicist and university teacher.
Her affiliations include National Aeronautics and Space Administration and University of Virginia.
The engineer's achievement usually disappears into infrastructure, which is the point.
Formal recognition came in the shape of the United States Astronaut Hall of Fame.
Working from the United States shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have her, the language the work first appeared in.
Kathryn C. Thornton is still at work, and the final assessment has not been made - the ordinary condition of a living career.
Achievements
- United States Astronaut Hall of Fame
- Affiliated with National Aeronautics and Space Administration and University of Virginia
- Educated at Auburn University, University of Virginia and Sidney Lanier High School
- Worked as astronaut, physicist and university teacher
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