'From Meridian to the Moon'

Meridian (Miss.) native Tracy Johnson, deputy manager of program planning and control at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama, will speak to students and community residents at Meridian Community College on Feb. 14. The program, From Meridian to the Moon, will get underway at 2 p.m. in the McCain Theater at Ivy-Scaggs Hall. The program is open and free to the public. Johnson, an alumna of Meridian Community College, graduated from Meridian High School and attended MCC. At NASA, Johnson helps lead planning, directing and coordinating development of America's deep-space rocket for human and scientific exploration. Marshall Space Flight Center is the nation’s civilian rocketry and spacecraft propulsion research center. (Meridian Star 02/13/23)