Rocket Girls and the Advent of the Space Age
Item
- Title
- Rocket Girls and the Advent of the Space Age
- Description
- The "human computers" at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) campus. Among them is Janez Lawson, the first African American hired into a technical position at JPL. The work of these women helped launch the first U.S. satellite, Explorer 1.
- Creator
- NASA
- JPL-Caltech
- Date
- 1953
- Type
- Photographs
- Format
- JPEG
- Spatial Coverage
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
- Relation
- NASA History
- Item sets
- KWeseloh
- Site pages
- Pioneering Women of NASA
