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=== Scientists, engineers, and technologists === Valerie Thomas, data scientist at Goddard and inventor of the Illusion Transmitter (1964-1995) Pearl I. Young, physicist and first female professional at NACA Langley, later Chief Technical Editor (1922-1936) Dorothy Vaughan, mathematician and supervisor of the West Area Computers at NACA Langley (1943-1958) Mary W. Jackson, aerospace engineer and NASA's first Black female engineer (1958-1985) Katherine Johnson, mathematician whose orbital mechanics work supported Mercury, Apollo, and Shuttle missions (1953-1986) Christine Darden, aeronautical engineer and sonic boom expert, later Senior Executive at NASA Langley (1967-2007) Annie Easley, computer scientist at Lewis, pioneer in codes for propulsion and energy systems (1955-1989) Miriam D. Mann, among the earliest West Area human computers at Langley, noted for desegregation advocacy (1943-1940s) Melba Roy Mouton, mathematician at Goddard who led Echo satellite orbit tracking and programming teams (1959-1973) Susan G. Finley, JPL engineer who began as a human computer in 1958, the lab's longest-serving employee (1958-present) Barbara Askins, Marshall chemist who invented a photographic enhancement process, National Inventor of the Year (1978) Margaret Hamilton, computer scientist who led Apollo guidance computer software at MIT IL (1965-1972) Nancy Grace Roman, astronomer and first Chief of Astronomy at NASA, "Mother of Hubble" (1959-1979) Marcia Neugebauer, JPL space plasma physicist who helped make the first in-situ solar wind measurements (1960s-1990s) Claudia Alexander, JPL geophysicist, last Galileo project manager and U.S. Rosetta project scientist (1999-2015) Amy Mainzer, astronomer, principal investigator for NEOWISE and NEO Surveyor (2010-present) Natalie Batalha, astrophysicist, Kepler science leader and project scientist at NASA Ames (2010-2018) Linda J. Spilker, JPL planetary scientist, Cassini project scientist then Voyager project scientist (2010-2017, 2022-present) Sarah Milkovich, JPL science operations leader for Mars 2020 Perseverance (2015-present) Zainab Nagin Cox, JPL spacecraft operations engineer on Galileo, Mars rovers, Kepler, and InSight (1993-present) MiMi Aung, JPL engineer who led the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter through first flight on another world (2014-2021) Swati Mohan, guidance, navigation, and control operations lead for Perseverance entry, descent, and landing (2021) Diana Trujillo, JPL mission operations leader for Perseverance and Spanish-language EDL host (2021) Farah Alibay, JPL systems engineer on InSight, Perseverance, and Ingenuity (2014-present) Elizabeth "Zibi" Turtle, planetary scientist and principal investigator of the Dragonfly mission to Titan (2019-present) Laurie Leshin, planetary geochemist and first woman to direct JPL (2022-2025) Lisa Pratt, astrobiologist and NASA Planetary Protection Officer (2018-2021) Camille Wardrop Alleyne, aerospace engineer and NASA executive for ISS, CLPS, and commercial LEO programs (2003-2024) Michelle Thaller, astronomer and science communicator at NASA Goddard, assistant director then deputy for science communication (2009-2024)
=== Flight operations and leadership === Holly Ridings, first female Chief Flight Director at NASA, later Gateway program leader (2018-2022, 2023-present) Ginger Kerrick, first Hispanic female NASA flight director, ISS and Shuttle operations (2005-2012) Ellen Stofan, NASA Chief Scientist and principal adviser on science programs (2013-2016) Nicola Fox, Associate Administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate (2023-present) Lori Garver, NASA Deputy Administrator who advanced commercial crew and cargo partnerships (2009-2013) Dava Newman, NASA Deputy Administrator (2015-2017) Pamela Melroy, NASA Deputy Administrator and former Shuttle commander (2021-present) Vanessa Wyche, director of Johnson Space Center, first Black woman to lead a NASA center (2021-present) Janet Petro, director of Kennedy Space Center (2021-present) JoAnn H. Morgan, instrumentation controller for Apollo 11, first woman at a Firing Room console (1969)
=== Active Women Astronauts === Serena M. Auñón-Chancellor, physician and Expedition 56/57 flight engineer (2018) Tracy Caldwell Dyson, chemist and veteran of STS-118 and Expeditions 23/24 and 71 (2007-2010, 2024) Jeanette J. Epps, aerospace engineer and Crew-8 mission specialist on a long-duration ISS mission (2024) Christina Hammock Koch, electrical engineer, 328-day ISS mission, assigned to Artemis II (2019-2020) Nicole Mann, U.S. Marine Corps test pilot and Crew-5 commander, first Native American woman in space (2022-2023) Megan McArthur, oceanographer and veteran of STS-125 and Crew-2 long-duration mission (2009, 2021) Anne C. McClain, helicopter test pilot and Expedition 58/59 flight engineer with two spacewalks (2018-2019) Jessica U. Meir, biologist and Expedition 61/62 flight engineer, participant in the first all-woman spacewalk (2019-2020) Kathleen Rubins, microbiologist and Expedition 48/49 and 63/64 flight engineer, first to sequence DNA in space (2016, 2020-2021) Shannon Walker, physicist and veteran of two ISS expeditions, briefly ISS commander on Expedition 65 (2010, 2020-2021) Stephanie D. Wilson, aerospace engineer and veteran of three shuttle flights, Artemis team member (2006-2010) Sunita L. Williams, Navy test pilot and veteran of two long-duration ISS missions and the extended Starliner Crew Flight Test stay (2006-2007, 2012, 2024-2025)
== See also == Women in space List of female astronauts Women in science Hidden Figures NASA Women's history
== References ==
== External links == "The Women of NASA". National Women's History Museum. "Women @ NASA" NASA