{"id":105649,"date":"2016-04-12T14:43:53","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T14:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/04\/12\/meet-the-rocket-girls-the-women-who-charted-the\/"},"modified":"2016-04-12T14:43:53","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T14:43:53","slug":"meet-the-rocket-girls-the-women-who-charted-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/04\/12\/meet-the-rocket-girls-the-women-who-charted-the\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet The ‘Rocket Girls,’ The Women Who Charted The Course To Space"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meet The ‘Rocket Girls,’ The Women Who Charted The Course To Space<\/a><\/p>\n

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rejectedprincesses<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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@npr<\/a> (via\u00a0this interview<\/a>):\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u201dI was asked to graph the results coming back from the Explorer 1 satellite. And I worked most of the night, through the night, at JPL with my mechanical pencil and graph paper <\/b>and light table that I was working on. And that was all the equipment that I had<\/b>. \u2026As I look back on so many things, I get more excited now than I did then. But it was exciting. I mean, it was great news that [Explorer I] was \u2026 in orbit around the Earth.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The article talks about several of the women at NASA\/JPL \u2013 meaning it might include two women previously featured here on RP:<\/p>\n

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Annie Jean Easley,<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0whose work contributed to the Centaur rockets\u2026.<\/p>\n

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\u2026and Mary Sherman Morgan<\/a>, whose work was instrumental in developing modern rocket fuel and propelling the US forward in the Space Race.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Meet The ‘Rocket Girls,’ The Women Who Charted The Course To Space rejectedprincesses: @npr (via\u00a0this interview):\u00a0 \u201dI was asked to graph the results coming back from the Explorer 1 satellite. And I worked most of the night, through the night, at JPL with my mechanical pencil and graph paper and light table that I was … <\/p>\n

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