Dale DeBakcsy
A Bigger Boom: Mary Sherman Morgan, the World's First Woman Rocket Scientist.
On October 4, 1957, the United States received the greatest single blow to its prestige since the burning of the White House in 1814 with...
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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
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 25, 2023
The Women’s Space Program That Wasn’t: The Story of the Mercury 13
The story of the Mercury 13, as it is usually told, features 13 heroes, 2 villains, and a throng of supportive roles stretched between...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 24, 2023
First: The Astrophysics and Astronautics of Sally Ride
Heroes are supposed to be monodimensional, startling and exceptional in one narrow aspect of life and a complex, barely functioning mess...
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