Mary Jackson chandra.si.edu/women www.nasa.gov National Aeronautics and Space Administration Mary Jackson (b. 1921) grew up in Virginia and graduated college with a Bachelor’s degree in math and physics. Aſter spending part of her early career as a teacher, she changed paths to become a “computer” (or mathematician) for the National Advisory Commiee for Aeronautics (NACA), which later morphed into the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Jackson worked on data from wind tunnel experiments as well as data from aircraſt and aeronautics experiments. illustration: Kristin DiVona
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Mary Jackson
chandra.si.edu/womenwww.nasa.gov
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Mary Jackson (b. 1921) grew up in Virginia and graduated college with a Bachelor’s degree in math and physics. After spending part of her early career as a teacher, she changed paths to become a “computer” (or mathematician) for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), which later morphed into the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Jackson worked on data from wind tunnel experiments as well as data from aircraft and aeronautics experiments.
illustration: Kristin DiVona
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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cady coleman
U.S. Air Force Colonel, chemist and astronaut Cady Coleman (b. 1960) helped deploy NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory into space in 1999 and has since spent about 180 days aboard the International Space Station. Coleman cites that it wasn’t until she was in college when astronaut Sally Ride came to talk that she first became interested in being an astronaut.
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grace hopper
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Working as a Rear Admiral in the Navy and as a computer scientist, Grace Hopper (b. 1906) was a leader in the nascent computer programming and software development fields. She is known to have developed the computer programming language compiler. In 1934, Hopper was one of the first women to earn a Ph.D. from Yale in mathematics.
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During her career, A
nnie Easley (b. 1933) participated in the evolution from the “hum
an com
puter” to computer program
ming at w
hat today is NA
SA’s Glenn Research C
enter in O
hio. She developed code used in researching energy-conversion systems, analyzing
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as a mentor and role m
odel to many through her
actions and successes.
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Katherine Johnson
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Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson (b.1918) is an African-American space scientist and mathematician who calculated space flight trajectories for critical NASA projects such as the 1969 Apollo 11 trip to the Moon. Johnson was known for her mathematical accuracy and was asked to double check the computer-based calculations on major space flight missions.
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eileen collins
When Eileen C
ollins (b.1956) joined the Air Force Reserve O
ffice Training C
orp (ROTC
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omen w
ere not allowed to be pilots. Fortuitously, that changed in 1976 w
hile Collins
was w
orking on her undergraduate degree in math and econom
ics. After spending
over a decade at the Air Force, C
ollins was selected to the astronaut corps in 1990.
She became the first fem
ale pilot of NA
SA’s Space Shuttle in 1993 and the first fem
ale com
mander of a N
ASA
space mission in 1997.
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Melba Roy M
outon (b. 1929) was a m
athematician and com
puter program
mer in N
ASA’s Trajectory and G
eodynamics D
ivision, acting as the A
ssistant Chief of Research Program
mes. M
outon worked at N
ASA’s
Goddard Space Flight C
enter, coding computer program
s to calculate the trajectories and locations of various aircra� .