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Topic: Marjorie Townsend, satellite mgr. (1930-2015)
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Robert Pearlman
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posted 05-08-2015 08:59 AM
   
Marjorie R. Townsend, an electrical engineer who became the first woman to manage a U.S. spacecraft launch, died April 4, the Washington Post reports. In 1959, Mrs. Townsend was one of the first female engineers to join NASA. In the next decade, she became the first female spacecraft project manager at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.From the mid-1960s to 1975, she managed the agency's small astronomy satellite program, where she was responsible for the design, construction, testing and orbital operations of NASA's first astronomical spacecrafts. Most notably, she oversaw the development and launch of Uhuru, the world's first X-ray astronomy satellite. The space instrument, launched in 1970 in Kenya, was used to detect, survey and map celestial X-ray sources and gamma ray emissions. It was the first U.S. spacecraft to be launched by another country (Italy) in a foreign location (the coast of Kenya). |
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Apollo-Soyuz
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posted 05-08-2015 05:39 PM
As a tribute to Marjorie Townsend, here is a scan of a cover she autographed for me in the 1970s. |
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