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Topic:	Women who worked the Apollo 11 mission

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Your Reply: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	[QUOTE]Originally posted by Dirk: [B]JoAnn Morgan was the only woman, female engineer, at mission control during the Apollo 11 mission. [URL=https://www.hln.be/wetenschap-planeet/wetenschap/ontmoet-joann-morgan-de-enige-vrouw-in-het-controlecentrum-tijdens-de-lancering-van-apollo-11~acebb750/]This article[/URL] just was published in a Belgian newspaper.[/B][/QUOTE]
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<table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width="600"><TR><td bgcolor="#000000"><TABLE BORDER=0 cellpadding=4 border=0 cellspacing=1 WIDTH="100%"><TR bgcolor="#660000"><TD COLSPAN=2><CENTER><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#ffffff" FACE="sans-serif">T O P I C     R E V I E W</font></CENTER></TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#494949"><TD valign=top><FONT SIZE="2" FACE="sans-serif">Dirk</FONT></TD><TD><FONT SIZE="2" FACE="sans-serif">JoAnn Morgan was the only woman, female engineer, at mission control during the Apollo 11 mission. <A HREF="https://www.hln.be/wetenschap-planeet/wetenschap/ontmoet-joann-morgan-de-enige-vrouw-in-het-controlecentrum-tijdens-de-lancering-van-apollo-11~acebb750/" TARGET=_blank>This article</A> just was published in a Belgian newspaper.</FONT></TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#333333"><TD valign=top><FONT SIZE="2" FACE="sans-serif">Robert Pearlman</FONT></TD><TD><FONT SIZE="2" FACE="sans-serif">A slight correct: Morgan was the only woman working in the Launch Control Center at Kennedy Space Center in Florida during the Apollo 11 launch. She was NASA's first female engineer.<P>Poppy Northcutt was the only woman working in an operational role in Mission Control at the Manned Spacecraft Center (later Johnson Space Center) in Houston during the Apollo 11 mission. She was the first female engineer to work as part of Mission Control.<P>CBS recently ran a piece about Morgan, Northcutt and Margaret Hamilton, who led the team at MIT who wrote the computer code for the Apollo 11 spacecraft:<P><center><iframe width="400" height="225" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/uX63s3lC6cg" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen>

oly

Poppy Northcutt was included in the documentary ":Chasing the Moon," an excellent documentary.

randy

There was also Sara Howard, who was an engineer for Boeing and worked on the S1-C stage of the Saturn V. I had the honor of emailing her. What a delightful and classy lady. I also have the privilege of having her autograph in my collection.

onesmallstep

Also Judy Sullivan, a NASA biomedical engineer who can be seen in photos and in film on launch day, standing by and marking a strip chart as the Apollo 11 crew suit up in the Manned Spacecraft Operations Building (which now bears Neil Armstrong's name). She appears in the recent documentary Apollo 11 and is depicted in the feature movie First Man.

astro-nut

To all the women who worked on the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo Programs thank you for being part of the NASA team to achieve our National goal! Great job by all of you!!!

Robert Pearlman

Google video

8:07 p.m. Mojave Desert. Moonlight strikes more than 107,000 solar mirrors to create a portrait of Apollo 11 computer programmer Margaret Hamilton. Bigger than New York's Central Park, the portrait is a tribute to Hamilton's contributions to the Apollo program and the field of software engineering. Learn more about Margaret here.

Jouett

That is just too cool. Thanks for sharing this.

Here is a 3:20 video on "The Making of 'Margaret by Moonlight'" that is interesting.

Jonnyed

Don't forget Rita Rapp, winner of NASA's Exceptional Service Medal for all her work, in part, with the Apollo Food Service program, responsible for all the in-flight tasties.

Anyone who can bring BACON to the moon is a hero in my book! (yum.)

Ken Havekotte

Even my own Mom, Dorothy, was one of the first women to work as an assistant inside an Apollo Lunar Module crew cabin while it was being processed at KSC's Manned Spacecraft Operations Bldg. (O&C) during the early 1970's, now renamed the Armstrong Ops. and Checkout facility.

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