Women’s History MonthMary Jackson grew up in Hampton, Virginia. After graduating with highest honors from high school, she then continued her education...Mary Jackson grew up in Hampton, Virginia. After graduating with highest honors from high school, she then continued her education...Photograph of 4X4 Supersonic Pressure Tunnel staff taken in 1950s, with 'human computers' in the front row: L. Doris Barron;...NASA research mathematician Katherine Johnson is photographed at work at NASA Langley Research Center in 1980.Woman working at manometer boards in the 18 x 18 inch Supersonic Wind Tunnel at Lewis Field (now the main...Melba Roy headed the group of NASA mathematicians, known as "computers," who tracked the Echo satellites. Roy's computations helped produce...Langley actively recruited woman workers to meet the increasing demand of the war effort and offset the alarming loss of...Langley actively recruited woman workers to meet the increasing demand of the war effort and offset the alarming loss of...Before the development of electronic computers, the term “computer” referred to women, not machines. It was a job title, designating...Astronauts Peggy A. Whitson (left), Expedition Five flight engineer; Sandra H. Magnus, STS-112 mission specialist, and Pamela A. Melroy, STS-112...NASA astronaut Kate Rubins is pictured inside of the Soyuz MS-01 spacecraft while conducting routine spacesuit checks. The Expedition 49...NASA Astronaut Peggy WhitsonNASA Deputy Administrator Dava Newman speaks on a panel on Interplanetary Frontiers at the White House Frontiers Conference Thursday, October...NASA astronaut Kate Rubins checks a sample for air bubbles prior to loading it in the biomolecule sequencer. When Rubins’...Astronaut Kate Rubins Holds a Reference GuideNASA research mathematician Katherine Johnson is photographed at her desk at Langley Research Center. Born on Aug. 26, 1918, in...Expedition 48 crew members Kate Rubins (left) and Jeff Williams (right) of NASA outfit spacesuits inside of the Quest airlock...The Juno team celebrates after receiving confirmation from the spacecraft that it had successfully completed the engine burn and entered...Kate Rubins of NASA conducts a “fit check” familiarization aboard the Soyuz MS-01 spacecraft.Astronauts Kate Rubins and Peggy WhitsonExpedition 48-49 prime crew members Takuya Onishi, Kate Rubins and Anatoly IvanishinEngaging Women and Girls in STEM through Data Science EventThis week in 1983, space shuttle Challenger and the STS-7 crew launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. With the launch,...Commercial Crew Program astronaut Suni Williams works with the Starliner Part Task TrainerOn April 8, 2010, STS-131 mission specialists Stephanie Wilson of NASA, Naoko Yamazaki of JAXA, Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger of NASA, and...NASA research mathematician Katherine Johnson is photographed at her desk at Langley Research Center in 1966. Johnson made critical technical...On Sept. 12, 1992, launch day of the STS-47 Spacelab-J mission on space shuttle Endeavour, NASA astronaut Mae Jemison waits...In this Feb. 3, 1995, image taken onboard space shuttle Discovery on flight day one of the STS-63 mission, astronaut...Expedition 46-47 Backup Crew Member Kate Rubins of NASAExpedition 46/47 backup crew members Anatoly Ivanishin, Kate Rubins and Takuya OnishiYoung women who plan to study engineering at Old Dominion University recently looked in on projects underway at NASA's Langley...Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md. holds a bumper sticker given to her by members of the New Horizons team at the...Alice Bowman, the Mission Operations Manager, at work in the Mission Operations Center.Members of the New Horizons team are shown at the launch of the spacecraft, Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida...The female team members were photographed at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory on July 11, 2015, just three days...Samantha Cristoforetti rests in a chair outside the Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft.ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti checks her Sokol pressure suit in preparation for the Expedition 43 crew's departure from the International...ISS043E160068 (05/03/2015) --- ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti waits next to the newly installed ISSpresso machine. The espresso...American Astronaut Sunita Williams from Expedition 33 floats next to the J-SSOD containing TechEdSat-1JSC's Ochoa Praises CCP Progress
