Evelyn Miralles

Evelyn Rodriguez Miralles is a Venezuelan-American engineer, born in 1966, who spent about twenty years in the virtual reality laboratory at NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston. From 1992 she supported Space Shuttle and International Space Station missions, beginning with a three-dimensional model of a lunar habitat, and she was part of the team for the 1993 Hubble Space Telescope repair mission. She co-authored the Dynamic Onboard Ubiquitous Graphics flight software, used since 2000 to train astronauts with virtual reality to perform spacewalks and work outside a spacecraft in microgravity. Her honours include the NASA Silver Snoopy Award in 2012, a place on the BBC 100 Women list in 2016 and a Distinguished Alumna Award from the University of Houston-Clear Lake, where she later became an associate vice president for strategic information initiatives and technology.