Mary Jackson carved her own career path in engineering at NASA before switching roles to help others rise to the top.
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Today is Earth Day, and we’re celebrating the work of Dr. Joan Brennecke, who is researching ways to use ionic liquids to develop green processes.
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Inspired by the Apollo moon missions “missile woman” Tessy Thomas has always been fascinated with science and mathematics.
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Kitty O’Brien was the first female engineer hired by NACA, the predecessor of NASA.
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Margaret Knight nearly didn’t get credit for an invention that changed the world: the first machine made to create flat bottomed paper bags.
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Today, we’d like you to meet Edith Clarke, the first woman to be hired as an electrical engineer in the U.S.
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Aprille Ericsson-Jackson is an aerospace engineer at NASA, and was the first African-American woman to get a PhD in engineering at Howard University.
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Dr. Wanda M. Austin started at The Aerospace Corporation as an entry level engineer rising all the way to CEO and President.
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Andrea Mueller has always loved racing, and now she’s a lead race engineer in NASCAR helping lead Team Penske to victory.
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Today marks the thirtieth anniversary of the tragic explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger which killed its seven crew members including mission specialist Judith Resnik.
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