posted 07-16-2019 04:24 PM
JoAnn Morgan was the only woman, female engineer, at mission control during the Apollo 11 mission. This article just was published in a Belgian newspaper.
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 42988 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 07-16-2019 04:52 PM
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.
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.
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:
oly Member
Posts: 905 From: Perth, Western Australia Registered: Apr 2015
posted 07-16-2019 09:28 PM
Poppy Northcutt was included in the documentary ":Chasing the Moon," an excellent documentary.
randy Member
Posts: 2176 From: West Jordan, Utah USA Registered: Dec 1999
posted 07-17-2019 09:51 AM
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 Member
Posts: 1310 From: Staten Island, New York USA Registered: Nov 2007
posted 07-25-2019 06:16 PM
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 Member
Posts: 946 From: Washington, IL Registered: Jan 2006
posted 07-28-2019 02:51 PM
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 Editor
Posts: 42988 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 07-31-2019 12:18 PM
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 Member
Posts: 53 From: Fishers, IN, USA Registered: Aug 2016
posted 08-01-2019 06:07 AM
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 Member
Posts: 396 From: Dumfries, VA, USA Registered: Aug 2014
posted 08-13-2019 09:01 PM
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 Member
Posts: 2915 From: Merritt Island, Florida, Brevard Registered: Mar 2001
posted 08-14-2019 05:49 AM
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.
posted 07-16-2019 04:24 PM
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