ALL POSTS
A Bigger Boom: Mary Sherman Morgan, the World's First Woman Rocket Scientist.
Legacy, Suspended: Vera Rubin and the Ongoing Saga of Dark Matter.
Sarah Stewart Johnson, Mars, and the Search for Life as We Don’t Know It.
Trajectories: Katherine Johnson’s Orbital Mathematics
The Early Days of IBM at NASA: Evelyn Boyd Granville.
Maria Winkelmann and the Guilded Age of Astronomy
An ER Doctor in Space: The Story of Astronaut Rhea Seddon
Space Biomedical Engineer Mamta Patel Nagaraja, the Woman Behind Women@NASA
Champion of Chinese Heliocentrism: The Stellar Mathematics of Wang Zhenyi
Scheduling for Success, Preparing for Disaster: NASA Flight Controller Marianne Dyson
Beatrice Tinsley, the Birth of Galaxies, and the Ever-Expanding Universe
Queen Seondeok and the Construction of East Asia’s First Astronomical Observatory.
Preparing for an Unknown Tomorrow: Astronaut Kathryn Sullivan and the Saving of the HST
Summing the Cosmos: Henrietta Swan Leavitt and the Saga of the Cepheid Stars
The Women’s Space Program That Wasn’t: The Story of the Mercury 13
Kepler, For the People: Maria Cunitz’s Urania Propitia and the Popularisation of Heliocentrism.
Before There was Sagan: How Helen Sawyer Hogg Brought Astronomy to the People
The Concerns of the Earth, and Above: Mae Jemison’s Life in Medicine and Space Travel.
Jane Luu and the Discovery of the Kuiper Belt.
Studies in Expectation: Jocelyn Bell-Burnell and the Discovery of Pulsars.