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Topic: Dottie Lee, Apollo engineer (1927-2020)
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Robert Pearlman
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posted 11-02-2020 02:21 PM
   
Dorothy B. "Dottie" Lee, whose work as a NASA engineer helped develop the heatshields for the Apollo command module and space shuttle, died on Oct. 31, 2020. A brief biographical sketch from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers: The design of all U.S. manned space programs draw on the work of Dot Lee. She read astrophysics books as a child and dedicated herself to helping humanity get to the Moon. Fresh from college with a degree in mathematics, Lee was hired as a human computer to work at NASA Langley Research Center. By chance, the legendary designer Maxime Faget, then head of the Pilotless Aircraft Research Division, noticed Lee and moved her to engineering. Later, Lee transferred to Johnson Space Center, where she was one of only a handful of women engineers. Lee worked on predicting the performance of the command module heat shield, looking at temperatures and pressures the capsule would have to endure on re-entry. Her calculations were essential in the design of that spacecraft — and many others. On the day of the moon landing, she didn't get to celebrate with the other engineers. "I was just going to go home," Lee said in 1999 NASA interview. "I had to relieve the babysitter."  |
randy
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