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.