NASA兰利研究中心的女性

In honor of Women’s History Month and those who paved the way for them, hundreds of female staff – from artists to administrative support, educators to engineers, and scientists to safety officers – gathered in front of the Katherine G. Johnson Computational Research Facility at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, on Feb. 6, 2024.

“Their path to advancement might look less like a straight line and more like some of the pressure distributions and orbits they plotted, but they were determined to take a seat at the table.” Margot Lee Shetterly, Hidden Figures

Shetterly wrote these words about Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Christine Darden, and Katherine Johnson, the first Black women who worked as mathematicians at the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory, now NASA’s Langley Research Center­. These women were essential to the success of early spaceflight.

Text Credit: Sondra D. Woodward

Image Credit: NASA/David C. Bowman

2024年2月6日，为了纪念女性历史月和为妇女历史月铺平道路的人，数百名女性员工——从艺术家到行政支持，从教育者到工程师，从科学家到安全官员——聚集在位于弗吉尼亚州汉普顿的NASA兰利研究中心的凯瑟琳·G·约翰逊计算研究设施前。

“他们的晋升之路可能看起来不太像一条直线，而更像是他们绘制的一些压力分布和轨道，但她们决心要在谈判桌上占有一席之地。”玛格特·李·谢特利《隐藏人物》

谢特利在书中提到多萝西·沃恩、玛丽·杰克逊、克里斯汀·达登和凯瑟琳·约翰逊，她们是在兰利纪念航空实验室（现NASA的兰利研究中心）工作的第一批黑人女性数学家。这些女性对早期太空飞行的成功至关重要。

文字来源：Sondra D. Woodward

图片来源：NASA/David C. Bowman