Vera Huckel
Vera Huckel started work at the NACA in 1939.At the time, very few women worked as computers. By 1945 she was a section head in charge of up to 17 women, having worked as mathematician, aerospace engineer, and supervisory mathematician.
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Beryl Platt
Helped establish the Women Into Science and Engineering Year in 1984.
Dorothée Pullinger
Aero and automobile engineer and entrepreneur.
Pearl Young
The first female professional hired by NASA’s predecessor, NACA, in an age when most women in the government were constrained to staffing support positions such as secretaries or administrative aides.
Dorothy Vaughan
The first African-American female supervisor of the NACA, advancing to become an expert in digital computers and their applications in NASA programs.
Kathryn Peddrew
Kathryn Peddrew spent over 40 years working for the NACA/NASA, mainly working in balance in the Instrument Research Division.
Mary W Jackson
Mary Winston Jackson (1921–2005) successfully overcame the barriers of segregation and gender bias to become a professional aerospace engineer and leader in ensuring equal opportunities for future generations at NASA.
Wally Funk
Funk was a member of the First Lady Astronaut Trainees (also known as the “Mercury 13“).
Bonnie Dunbar
American astronaut sent into space five times.
Dr Ellen Ochoa
Astronaut Ellen Ochoa became Johnson Space Center’s 11th center director in 201 un til her retirement in 2018 after 30 years at NASA.