Mary Sherman Morgan
The only female engineer among 900 rocket scientists at North American Aviation in the early 1950s, she invented hydyne, the rocket fuel that successfully boosted America’s first satellite into orbit in 1958.
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Dorothy McFadden Hoover
Dorothy M. Hoover was a pioneer in the field of aeronautical mathematics and physics. The granddaughter of enslaved people, she overcame the significant obstacles facing African American women in the Jim Crow era of the twentieth century to earn advanced degrees in mathematics and physics.
Harriett Jenkins
Harriett Jenkins did her part to diversify NASA as the assistant administrator for equal opportunity programs from 1974 to 1992.
Dr Christine Darden
In 1967, Christine Darden was added to the pool of ‘human computers’ who wrote complex programs and tediously crunched numbers for engineers at NASA’s Langley Research Center. But Darden wanted to do more than process the data — she wanted to create it.
Kathleen Wicker
In the mid-1950s, Kathleen Wicker received an assignment at work with one of the first electronic computers at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
Ethel Heinecke Bauer
American aerospace engineer
Mabel Hubbard Bell
American venture capitalist and social reformer
Dr Mahmooda Sultana
Bangladeshi-American scientist specialising in graphene, nanomaterials, micro-electro mechanical systems (MEMs) devices, and sensors. Her USC BSc and MIT PhD from MIT (2010 took her to NASA at the Goddard Space Flight Center where she led a team developing a nanomaterial-based detector platform.
Dr Rama Govindarajan
Indian-American aerospace engineer
Yi Soyeon
Korean astronaut