Jessica Gaskin is an American astrophysicist at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, [1] where she leads the X-ray Astronomy Group X-Ray Astronomy at Marshall Space Flight Center. She was the lead author on the conceptual study of the Lynx X-ray Observatory, [2] a Large Mission Concept Study space-based X-ray telescope submitted to the Decadal Survey for prioritization.
Gaskin earned a B.S. in Physics and Astrophysics from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology before receiving an M.S. in astronomy from Case Western Reserve University. [3] She then earned a PhD in physics from the University of Alabama in Huntsville. [4]