Dale DeBakcsy
Sarah Stewart Johnson, Mars, and the Search for Life as We Don’t Know It.
The Red Planet has not always been kind to those who have given their lives to its study. Before the rise of rover-based observation,...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 25, 2023
Trajectories: Katherine Johnson’s Orbital Mathematics
Before NASA, there was NACA, an oddball collection of aeronautics nerds using black box data and wind tunnel analysis to figure out as...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 25, 2023
The Early Days of IBM at NASA: Evelyn Boyd Granville.
The IBM 650 was a marvellous beast. The world’s first mass-produced (and first profitable) computer, it was the mainstay machine of the...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 25, 2023
An ER Doctor in Space: The Story of Astronaut Rhea Seddon
The first astronaut class to include women candidates, announced in 1978 and self-dubbed the TFNG, or Thirty-Five New Guys, brought six...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 25, 2023
Space Biomedical Engineer Mamta Patel Nagaraja, the Woman Behind Women@NASA
When it comes finally time to settle Mars, the most terrifying sound might not be *RRRIP* or ‘I'‘m sorry, Dave, I don'‘t WANT to turn the...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 25, 2023
Scheduling for Success, Preparing for Disaster: NASA Flight Controller Marianne Dyson
In between landing on the moon in July of 1969 and launching the first space shuttle into orbit in April of 1981, NASA learned a few...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 25, 2023
Preparing for an Unknown Tomorrow: Astronaut Kathryn Sullivan and the Saving of the HST
This day, let us speak of a new type of hero, one whose life story is not told as a sum of new products invented and foisted upon an...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 24, 2023
The Concerns of the Earth, and Above: Mae Jemison’s Life in Medicine and Space Travel.
There is a bit of political wisdom we have lived with for half a century now, which says that spending money on space travel, while...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 24, 2023
Nancy Grace Roman and the Birth of the Hubble Space Telescope.
It is an image to inspire almost primordial awe, taken when a space telescope with a rocky past pointed itself towards a black expanse of...
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