Mercedes Reaves | |
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| Nationality | Puerto Rican |
| Occupation(s) | electronics engineer and scientist |
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Reaves is responsible for the design of a viable full-scale solar sail . | |
Mercedes Reaves is a Puerto Rican research engineer and scientist. She is responsible for the design of a viable full-scale solar sail and the development and testing of a scale model solar sail at NASA Langley Research Center in Virginia.