Katya Echazarreta
Mexican-American electrical engineer at NASA
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Lin Lanying
Lin Lanying’s work laid the foundation for the development of microelectronics and optoelectronics in China. She started a new research field and attracted the world’s attention to her research on the space growth of gallium arsenide crystals and their properties.
Diana Trujillo
Colombian aerospace engineer
Dr Maryly Van Leer Peck
The first woman to graduate in chemical engineering from the School of Engineering at Vanderbilt University and first woman to receive an MS and a PhD in engineering from the University of Florida (1962). She then got a job as a propellant and aerospace engineer for Rocketdyne Corporation and United States Naval Research Laboratory, developing solid fuel and engines which are still used in the space program today.
Zinaida Yershova
Soviet chemical engineer, who worked in both industry and academia developing methods for the production of radioactive materials for the Soviet atomic bomb project and the space programme.
Janez Lawson
She became the first African-American hired into a technical position at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, as a ‘computer’. JPL sent her on a programming training course at IBM and she learnt speed coding and was promoted to ‘mathematician’.
Nichelle Nichols
Actress, singer and dancer Nichelle Nichols is best known for her work as Lt. Uhura in the original Star Trek series, six subsequent films and Star Trek: The Animated Series.
Valentina Tereshkova
Soviet cosmonaut, the first woman in space, and later politician
Dr Peggy Whitson
American astronaut and biochemist
Dr Serena M Auñón-Chancellor
American astronaut, medical doctor and engineer