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The role of women in and affiliated with NASA has varied over time. As early as 1922 women were working as physicists and in other technical positions. [1] Throughout the 1930s to the present, more women joined the NASA teams not only at Langley Memorial, but at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Glenn Research Center, and other numerous NASA sites throughout the United States. [2]
Mary Jackson (née Winston; [1] April 9, 1921 – February 11, 2005) was an American mathematician and aerospace engineer at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), which in 1958 was succeeded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
Katherine Johnson Johnson in 1983 Born Creola Katherine Coleman (1918-08-26) August 26, 1918 White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, U.S. Died February 24, 2020 (2020-02-24) (aged 101) Newport News, Virginia, U.S. Other names Katherine Goble Education West Virginia State University (BS) Occupation Mathematician Employers NACA NASA (1953–1986) Known for Calculating trajectories for NASA ...
Frances "Poppy" Northcutt (born August 10, 1943) is an American engineer and attorney who began her career as a computress and was later a member of the technical staff of NASA's Apollo program during the Space Race. During the Apollo 8 mission she became the first female engineer to work in NASA's Mission Control. [1] [2] [3]
She later became the first female guidance systems engineer at NASA during the Apollo program. [1] Amongst her years at NASA, she had held various positions such as NASA deputy director for Electronic Engineering, division chief of the Space Shuttle test group at Vandenberg Air Force Base, and NASA associate director for Safety, Reliability and ...
Vanessa E. Wyche is an American engineer and civil servant who is currently serving as the Director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC) since 2021. [1] A NASA employee for over 30 years, Wyche served previously as Deputy Director and Lead Engineer of JSC. [2] [3] [4]
Lueders began her NASA career as a co-op in 1992 [13] in the safety and mission assurance office as a quality engineer at the White Sands Test Facility while still a student at New Mexico State. [14] As only the second woman to work at the facility, [ 15 ] after graduation Lueders started as the depot manager of the Space Shuttle program ...
Irma Aracely Quispe Neira (born 1982; known as Aracely Quispe) is a Peruvian-American senior astronautical engineer, [1] NASA scientist, academic and researcher. [2] [3] She is known as the first Latin-American woman [4] to lead three successful NASA missions in the United States: [5] [6] [7] Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM), [8] the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), [9] and James ...