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  2. Women in NASA - Wikipedia

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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]

  3. Mary Jackson (engineer) - Wikipedia

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    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).

  4. Frances Northcutt - Wikipedia

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    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]

  5. Judy Sullivan - Wikipedia

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    Sullivan was hired at NASA in 1966 as the first woman engineer in Spacecraft Operations. [6] In the 1960s, 17 percent of the staff at NASA were women, and most of those women were secretaries. [2] She was lead biomedical engineer for the Apollo 11 mission and was the only woman to help Neil Armstrong in the suit lab prior to Apollo 11's launch. [7]

  6. Kathy Lueders - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Jeanne Lee Crews - Wikipedia

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    Jeanne was one of ten engineering freshman who was invited to take a physical chemistry course with graduate students. [4] She then finished getting her B.S. in aerospace engineering at the University of Florida. [4] In September 1964, Jeanne was hired at NASA as an engineer. She was one of the first women engineers hired there.

  8. Vanessa E. Wyche - Wikipedia

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    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]

  9. Aracely Quispe Neira - Wikipedia

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    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 ...