Video of Yvonne Brill's 2009 Gardner Lecture

Editor’s Note:   One silver lining of the imbroglio over the New York Times’s bungling of Yvonne Brill’s obituary is that it has piqued people’s curiosity about her.  There’s no better way to learn more about her amazing career than to hear it in her own words.

On April 2, 2009, Yvonne gave the 32nd Astronautics and Aeronautics Department Lester D. Gardner Lecture at MIT, another one of the honors bestowed upon her.  The video is available on the Internet.  It is a technical presentation, mostly about communications satellites and their propulsion systems, but I think you’ll feel like you’ve met Yvonne if you watch it.  She was 84 when she gave this lecture.