What is Lissette Martinez?
{{BLP unsourced|date=October 2012}} [[File:Lissette Martinez pt2.JPG|thumb|Lissette Martinez]] '''Lissette Martinez''' (born 1971), is the lead [[Electrical engineering|electrical engineer]] for the Space Experiment Module program at the Wallops Flight Facility, which is part of [[NASA]]'s [[Goddard Space Flight Center]]. ==Life== Martinez was born in [[Brooklyn, New York]] to [[Puerto Rican]] parents. She was raised in [[Yauco]], [[Puerto Rico]] where her family had moved when she was still a child. In Puerto Rico she went to school from k-8th grade. When she was in 8th grade, she was given a homework assignment to study the moon which. She spent a lot of time on the roof of her house every night for a month. She wrote down and detailed everything about the [[moon]], the way the moon looked. That report made her interested in the moon. ==Education== After she graduated from [[high school]], she studied at the [[University of Puerto Rico]] at [[Mayaguez]]. During her third year as an electrical engineering [[student]] she was accepted into the NASA Cooperative Education Program. She was started working at NASA right away. Martinez earned, finished, her degree in electrical engineering in 1993 and was offered a job in NASA. ==Work== Martinez was part of the team that launched a [[rocket]] from [[White Sands, New Mexico]] to gather information on the Hale-Bopp Comet, a comet. She is responsible for providing, giving electrical engineering support to Code 870 Space Experiment Module (SEM) program. She is also responsible for the testing of ground and flight hardware. Martinez works with students around the world, helping them with science experiments that will actually ride along on Space Shuttle missions and blast into space. Martinez continues to work at Wallops Flight Facility located in Virginia. She lives with her son in [[Salisbury, Maryland]]. {{DEFAULTSORT:Martinez, Lissette}} [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:1971 births]] [[Category:Scientists from New York City]] [[Category:Puerto Rican engineers