Pioneering Women of NASA

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• Women Scientists at NASA in January 1959
  From left to right: Lucille Coltrane, Jean Clark Keating, an aerospace engineer, Katherine Collie Speegle, a mathematician, Doris 'Dot' Lee, Ruth I. Whitman, an engineer and Emily Stephens Mueller. Both Lucille Coltrane and Emily Mueller were known as "Computers," people who performed mathematical calculations by hand.
• Rocket Girls and the Advent of the Space Age
  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.