Bio
USAFA class of 2008 (Choose your fate!), Astro Major, Varsity Cheerleader
2010 MIT AeroAstro
2011 ENJJPT
2012 B-52
2014 Pacific power projection in the continuous bomber presence
2016 USAF Test Pilot School
2017 419th Bomber Flight Test B-52
2018 C-12 Flight Test and Mishap Safety School
2019 Joint operational and developmental flight test for moving map and hypersonics at Barksdale
2020 HQ AFGSC Branch Chief and flying staff tour
Wife and Mother, continued bomber test flying while pregnant and nursing, advocate for fly moms
National Champion Varsity Collegiate Cheerleader, 92 appearances/year, 2008 Spirit of the Academy and 2005 100% Awards
Math Coach for pre-algebra through calculus, Teacher for Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults and Youth Confirmation, Choir
Advanced Open Water and Nitrox SCUBA Certified, Reefer/Salt Water Aquariust, 244-gallons, 26 corals, 22 fish, 67 crustaceans
100% on Air Force Fitness Test and Air Force Academy 500 Club Member, Certified Physical Training Leader Fitness Assessor
Tough Mudder 2012, 200-mile Ragnar Relay, 2010, Beach to Bay Relay Marathon 2009, Midsummer Munro ½ Marathon 2007
Features
ENJJPT & Flight Test Radio Interview, 97.7 KAFA The Academy, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado, 14 Sep 2022
STEM Panel to 1,071 basic cadets class of 2026, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado, 2 Aug 2022
Daedalians Falcon Flight 11 Guest Speaker, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado, 12 May 2022
Mentored Aerial Tow Rehookup, pitch to Spark-tank, afwerx, 4 Mar 2022
99s Colorado Chapter Guest Speaker, Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum, Colorado, 12 Feb 2022
af_aero Instagram, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado, 14 Sep 2021
Boy Scouts of America Guest Speaker, Bossier City, Louisiana 20 Mar 2021
Women in Aviation International Guest Speaker, Houston, Texas 12 Mar 2021
Daedalians Guest Speaker, Air Force Test Pilot School, Barksdale AFB, Louisiana 17 Sep 2020
Rotary Club Guest Speaker, Air Force Test Pilot School, Shreveport Convention Center, Louisiana 18 Feb 2020
Slattery, Chad, Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association Magazine, U.S. Air Force B-52 Test Pilot, Maj. Christin ‘Sparta’ Hart: Launching the future
from a 60-year-old bomber, pg. 112, Nov 2020
AFCEA Armed Forces Communications & Electronics Assoc Speaker, Air Force Test Pilot School, Bossier City, Louisiana 15 Jan 2020
Carr, Jessica, http://bebossier.com/2020/01/reaching-new-heights-barksdale-afb-resident-becomes-first-female-b-52-test-pilot/
Bossier City, Louisiana, 13 Jan 2020
Bennett, Susan, Cockpit Magazine, Member, Lancaster, California, Winter 2019
Cochran, Patty, St. Jude Spotlight: Christin Hart Voor, Bread for the Journey, Benton, Louisiana, 1 Nov 2019
Teachers’ Workshop Instructor Pilot, Women in Aviation International Conference, Long Beach, California, 14 Mar 2019
Airfoce.com/originstory, Origin Story Commercial, aired nationwide, 268M impressions, Edwards AFB, California, 1 Feb 2019
Airfoce.com, Women Airforce Service Pilots iconic heritage photo recreation, Edwards AFB, California, 1 Feb 2019
Northrop Grumman VERITAS, Veteran’s Day Women in the Military Panelist, Plant 42, Palmdale, California, 14 Nov 2018
Aviation Career Day Speaker and C-12 Tour guide, California Aeronautical University, Bakersfield, California, 1 Nov 2018
Keynote Speaker, Fox Field Antelope Valley Girls in Aviation, Lancaster, California, 8 Sep 2018
Barksdale.af.mil, Innovation Episode, Bringing the Future Faster, Barksdale AFB, Louisiana, 11 May 2018
Distinguished Alumnus, Clear Creek Education Foundation Gala, https://vimeo.com/242998365, Houston, Texas, 4 Nov 2017
Litant, William, MIT AeroAstro Department Communications, Exhibit of Alumni, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Feb 2016
Adams, Cristina, Local Houston Magazine, The Right Stuff, pgs. 44-45, Houston, Texas, Feb 2016
North Dakota Living Magazine, featured article, Bismarck, North Dakota, Feb 2016
Hall, Apryl, Northern Sentry Newspaper, 5 BW Airmen Chase Lifelong Dreams, Minot AFB, North Dakota, 25 Dec 2015
Ogden, Eloise, Minot ND Daily Newspaper, Dreams Do Come True, Minot, North Dakota, 13 Dec 2015
Glaesmann, Stacey, The Citizen Newspaper, Clear Lake Alum Shoots for the Stars, Houston, Texas, 1 Dec 2015
Mentor for Marianas High School aeronautical team, Champions of Real World Design Challenge, Saipan, 15 Nov 2015
Futures Magazine, Aiming for the Stars, pgs. 26-27, todaysmilitary.com, Oct 2015
Pitts, Lauren, Minot ND Daily Newspaper, Training Pilots in Survival, Minot AFB, North Dakota, 23 Nov 2014
Pitts, Lauren, Northern Sentry Newspaper, Faith in Training, Minot AFB, North Dakota, 21 Nov 2014
Veteran’s Radio Show Interview, Women in Aviation, Minot, North Dakota, 2 Nov 2014
Keynote Speaker for Girls Lead the Way and Workshop Speaker, Space Exploration, Society of Women Engineers, Girls Lead the
Way Conference, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, 8 Feb 2014
Deters, Jessica, Oredigger Newspaper, Girls Lead the Way, Golden, Colorado, 9 Feb 2014
Negroni, Christine, The Crash Detectives, Penguin, 2015
Women Airforce Service Pilots Reunion Escort, Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas, June 2012
Negroni, Christine, Mapping the Intersection of Mind and Computer, blogspot.com, 15 Jun 2010
San Antonio Weddings Magazine, Finding the Perfect Fit, pgs. 258-259, July – August 2012
Women Airforce Service Pilots Museum Grand Opening Volunteer, Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas, June 2005
American Cheerleader Magazine, Featured Cheerleader, pg. 79, Oct 2005 and Squad of the Month, pg. 94, Oct 2002
Education
Air Force Academy Class of 2008 Astronautical Engineering
MIT S.M. AeroAstro Engineering 2010
USAF Test Pilot School Class 16B Experimental Test Pilot Course
Professional Experience
Flight Test Experience: USAF Test Pilot School Class of 16B, Experimental Test Pilot Course
Bomber-Tanker Certifications: B-52 and KC-46, B-52 and Australian KC-30
First Live Launches from B-52 Bay: Laser-Guided Bomb, Wind Corrected Munitions Dispenser, Quick Strike Mine,
Miniature Air-Launched Decoy, and Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile baseline and extended range variants
Nuclear Weapon System Evaluation Program, 9 Nuclear Generations, and test of NORAD Air Defense System
Captive Carry: Bomber Software display design, first power-on of all stations on Conventional Rotary Launcher
C-12 Kingair: photo chase of first flight of Korean Global Hawk, iNET telemetry, experimental parachutes
T-38: experimental aircrew flight equipment under sustained g-forces
Selected for Air Force Scientific Advisory Board Technical Writer 2021; consolidated B-52 weapons tech orders
FAA Ratings: ATP, CFI 3603895, CFI, CFII, MEI 3603895, Multi-engine land, Single-engine land and sea
Air Force Aeronautical Rating: Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training 2011
Honors & Awards
2021 MAJCOM Div FGQ 1Q21 (#1/47)
2020 General Vaught Visionary Leadership Award, Air Force Winner (#1/13,934)
2020 & 2016 Air Force Astronaut Nominee to NASA (top 300 of 18,000 Americans)
2017 State of Texas Resolution: Distinguished Alumni Award Clear Creek Education Foundation
2016 Top Pilot Team GLOBAL THUNDER Nuclear Exercise Minot AFB, North Dakota (#1/20)
Wg FGO 3Q19 (#1/263), Gp Div CC 2019 & 4Q19 (#1/60), Sq Div CC 2019 & 2Q19 (#1/7)
Gp CGO 4Q14 (#1/163), Volunteer 4Q14 & 2Q13, Sq CGO 1Q14 (#1/89)
2012 1 of 25 Officers, Lindell Mabus B-52 Formal Training Unit Leadership Award
2008 1 of 1 graduates in the Top 100 in all 3 areas and on the Superintendent’s List all 8 semesters
2007 Dean’s Ace, 1 of 21 cadets out of 4,355-member cadet wing to earn perfect 4.0 GPA
2008 #1 of 50 Research Writers, USAF Academy Graduate Studies Board
2008 #1 Engineering graduate in the state, Colorado Engineering Council medal recipient
2004 Wellesley College Book Award for top female graduate
Research and Scholarly Interests
FalconSAT-3 attitude determination and control system using gravity-gradient stabilization
MIT Humans and Automation Lab vigilance in human supervisory control of networked unmanned vehicles and advanced astrodynamics
Long-duration G-forces in the T-38 to develop aircrew flight equipment to warn of G-LOC and hypoxia
Keeping the B-52 flying for over 100 years
Publications
Hypersonics, Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon Instrumented Measurement Vehicle #1 Integration Test and Eval, Mar 2019
Aerial Refueling Safety Package Project Pilot, KC-30A/B-52H Coalition Tanker: Boom Sensor Fault Test Strategy, 27 Jul 2018
USAF Test Pilot School Test Management Project, Have Puffin: Experimental Testing of Aircrew Flight Equipment in Fighter
Aircraft, May 2019
Interacting with Computers Journal Article, Boredom and Distraction in Multiple Unmanned Vehicle Supervisory Control, Oxford
University Press, 2013
MIT Master’s Thesis in Aeronautics and Astronautics, Assessing the Impact of Low Workload in Supervisory Control of
Networked Unmanned Vehicles, Jun 2010
Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Journal Article, The Role of Human-Automation Consensus in Multiple Unmanned
Vehicle Scheduling, Feb 2010
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Conference Paper, Assessing Operator Workload and Performance in
Expeditionary Multiple Unmanned Vehicle Control, Jan 2010
Astronautical Sciences Journal Article, Attitude Determination for FalconSAT 3 Using Kalman Filtering, May 2008
AIAA Conference Paper, Attitude Determination for UoSAT Using Kalman Filtering, Apr 2008 (Region V 1st Place)
AIAA Conference Paper, Achieving Gravity-Gradient Stabilization for FalconSAT 3, Apr 2008
NASA Flight Controllers Robotics Console Handbook Section, Dexterous Handling Targets, Jul 2003 (Age 17)