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Carolyn S. Griner was the Acting Director of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center located in Huntsville, Alabama. She served as Acting Director from January 3, 1998 to September 11, 1998, between the terms of the eighth and ninth Directors. She resumed her duties as deputy director of the Marshall Center when Arthur G. Stephenson was installed at the ninth official Director.
Women scientists in training, (top to bottom)
Carolyn Griner, Ann Whitaker, and Dr. Mary Johnston, are shown simulating weightlessness while undergoing training in the Neutral Buoyancy Simulator at
Marshall Space Flight Center in 1975.
Griner joined the Marshall staff in 1964. She has received numerous awards throughout her career, including the NASA Exceptional Service Medal in 1986, the Presidential Rank of Meritorious Executive in 1992 and the Presidential Rank of Distinguished Executive in 1995.
On June 30, 1999, Griner received the space agency’s highest honor, the Distinguished Service Medal, for her extraordinary contributions to NASA’s missions.[1]
She earned her bachelor’s degree in astronautical engineering from Florida State University in Tallahassee in 1967. She has completed graduate work in industrial and systems engineering at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.
Candid shots of
Carolyn Griner (front), Drs. Mary-Helen Johnston and Ann Whitaker (L to R) wearing scuba gear at the Neutral Buoyancy Simulator for training in 1976.
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