Apolloproject’s Weblog

Did You Know? February 20, 2009

Did you know that we women who worked as Aerospace Engineers and other Engineers, Scientists and Researchers were the FIRST women in the world to do this? The Apollo program hired women with math degrees. We worked at Marshall Flight Center, Johnson Space Center, Cape Canaveral and at Michoud in New Orleans. There were a few who worked for NASA but we mostly worked for the contractors. I worked for Boeing, others worked for Chrysler, North American Aviation and others. NASA was so small, it had to hire 23,000 contractors who in turn hired close to 400,000 employees. NASA wants you to think that they did everything including building the infrastructure, the launch pads, all the stages and every nut and bolt. It is funny that when NASA trots out the astronauts,
it is a dog and pony show which has been going on for 40 years. )
We women were the “peons in the pits” and we are “lost in space”