”I was asked to graph the results coming back from the Explorer 1 satellite. And I worked most of the night, through the night, at JPL with my mechanical pencil and graph paper and light table that I was working on. And that was all the equipment that I had. …As I look back on so many things, I get more excited now than I did then. But it was exciting. I mean, it was great news that [Explorer I] was … in orbit around the Earth.”
The article talks about several of the women at NASA/JPL – meaning it might include two women previously featured here on RP: