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Where are my People? A Historical Analysis on NASA's Equal ...

The idea to create internal programs to increase women and minorities within. NASA appeared in the mid-1970s, but the agency did not report initiatives until ...

I Was the First Woman of Color in Space. Here's What Katherine ...

It is confounding that of 338 NASA astronauts, two of these African-American women, of stellar accomplishments and tenures of over 10 years each ...

The Women Who Brought Us the Moon | American Experience - PBS

Thousands of women began their careers at NASA as computers, before the advent of electronic machines. A diverse and potent force in space ...

Celebrating Women's History Month: Ellen Ochoa

the first Hispanic woman to break barriers in NASA, both as an astronaut and ... minorities in STEM and importance of women in leadership roles. Her ...

Astronauts celebrate mentorships and milestones on International ...

For International Women's Day, two newly graduated female NASA astronauts talked about the community of people that helped them join the ...

Why Is Space Still So White? - Marie Claire

There are only 18 African-American astronauts in NASA history. A third of them are women. Here, we explore what's stopping the space program from looking more ...

23 Black leaders who are shaping history today - CNBC

... Black women in the C-Suite. "When you're a Black woman, you get ... still have big goals. "The issue of diversity and lack of access to ...

These Black Women Helped Send Us To The Moon - Science Friday

And as many as 50 or more of the women who worked at Langley in those decades were African American women. Dorothy Vaughan, the first Black ...

'Hidden Figures' No More • Paso Robles Press

Today, African American women hold key positions at NASA, from engineers to project and systems managers. Five have made journeys into space ...

At 26, She Became the First Mexican-Born Woman to Travel to ...

NASA hired her for those communication skills, apparently to attract more minority women. ... currently the trend is still to emasculate ...

Most Influential Women Computer Scientists - ComputerScience.org

As one of the most influential women in computer science, she still works in the field as of 2022. ... LEGO immortalized her and a few other NASA women by ...

Almost 90% of astronauts have been men. But the future of space ...

Only 566 people have ever travelled to space. Sixty-five of them, or about 11.5%, were women. NASA recently proclaimed it will put the “first woman and next ...

NASA's African American History: From Hidden Figures to Artemis

From nearly all-white beginnings, the agency is set to put the first woman and person of color on the moon.

NASA's Christina Koch on Being the First Woman on a Moon Mission

Koch's presence on the team, meanwhile, is a big step toward gender equality in the workplace and a huge milestone for NASA, which since its ...

Against the Odds | Pitt Magazine | University of Pittsburgh

... female African American mathematicians at NASA in the early 1960s—a time when. ... Through the University and the Society of Women Engineers, she still ...

UC has sent more women to space than any other school in the ...

Sally Ride spent six years getting ready to go to space. She mastered open water survival and the minute complexities of the spaceship ...

16 Black Americans in Astronomy and Space - ThoughtCo

As a professor of physics at Stanford University from 1974 until his death, Walker encouraged many racial minorities and women to pursue careers ...

Astronaut Jeanette Epps' message to Syracuse girls like her

Epps will be the second Black woman to live on the space station, and the sixth Black woman to fly into space. Epps is Syracuse's first ...

One woman's campaign to give black female scientists their due

She's currently working on a larger list of scientists — of all minority backgrounds — whose photos and stories remain largely unknown.

The Hidden Story of NASA's African-American Women Mathematicians

We take a look at the real lives of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson, three little-known African-American mathematicians who played key ...