Frances Northcutt - Wikipedia
Frances "Poppy" Northcutt (born August 10, 1943) is an American engineer and attorney who began her career as a computress and was later a member of the technical staff of NASA's Apollo program during the Space Race.
Meet Poppy Northcutt, the Woman Who Helped Bring the …
2019年7月8日 · Meet Poppy Northcutt, a trailblazer at NASA's mission control center in Houston who helped the Apollo 11 astronauts return to Earth safely.
Poppy Northcutt, the Only Woman in Mission Control, Recalls …
2019年7月22日 · When Frances "Poppy" Northcutt says she wasn't supposed to be working on the Apollo 8 mission in December 1968, that had nothing to do with the fact that she was the...
Poppy Northcutt: The only woman in the Apollo control room
2019年5月31日 · At age 25, Frances Northcutt was vaulted to national fame as the first woman in NASA's flight control room. For half a century, pop culture has immortalized a group of quick-thinking,...
The Women Who Brought Us the Moon | American Experience | PBS
2019年6月3日 · In 1965, Poppy Northcutt was the only female engineer at NASA’s Houston Mission Control. As she gazed at the men around her she thought to herself, I’m as smart as they are. Although she ...
Inside Apollo mission control, from the eyes of the first woman …
2019年7月18日 · Engineer Poppy Northcutt speaks with a colleague inside NASA mission control in Houston, Texas, in 1969. In the 1960s and '70s, Poppy Northcutt planned the vital flight...
Poppy Northcutt, NASA Pioneer | Chasing the Moon - PBS LearningMedia
Learn how Poppy Northcutt overcame sexism and a “boys’ club” atmosphere to become the first female engineer in NASA’s mission control in the 1960s—a situation she describes as a “complete peculiarity” at the time—in this video adapted from Chasing the Moon | …
Poppy Northcutt Helped Apollo Astronauts - Business Insider
2014年12月9日 · Dec. 24 is the 46th anniversary of Apollo 8's lunar orbit — the first manned mission to travel to the moon and back. Although NASA was full of men at the time, there was one woman in the mix:...
‘Patients were turned away:’ Feminist pioneer ... - Texas Standard
2022年6月27日 · Poppy Northcutt, who was a NASA engineer serving at Mission Control during Apollo 8, volunteers today as an escort for those seeking abortion care. She was at Houston’s Women’s Clinic last Friday when the news broke that Roe versus Wade had been overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court.
How Poppy Northcutt cracked NASA's boys' club and became a …
2019年7月5日 · There, in a sea of slide rules and Y chromosomes, sat Francis “Poppy” Northcutt, NASA’s first female Mission Control engineer. Starting in 1965, Northcutt conducted trajectory analysis for...