Meet The ‘Rocket Girls,’ The Women Who Charted The Course To Space
@npr (via this interview):
”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:
Annie Jean Easley, whose work contributed to the Centaur rockets….
…and Mary Sherman Morgan, whose work was instrumental in developing modern rocket fuel and propelling the US forward in the Space Race.