Jeanette Davis is a marine microbiologist, Policy Analyst for NOAA and children’s book author. works as a Policy Analyst and Invasive Species Coordinator for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). As a policy analyst, Davis conducts research, writes reports and helps guide ocean resource policies. Additionally, Davis has served as the United States representative […]
Moogega Cooper Stricker is a planetary protection engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and was the Lead of Planetary Protection for the Mars 2020 Mission and involved with the InSight Mission. Her crucial work involves ensuring that spacecraft exploring other celestial bodies does not contaminate them with Earth-based microbes, and vice versa. Dr. Cooper
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Christine Darden is a distinguished mathematician, data analyst, and aeronautical engineer. She had a remarkable career at NASA, where her research on supersonic flight and sonic booms was groundbreaking. She was the first African-American woman at NASA’s Langley Research Center to be promoted to the Senior Executive Service, the top rank in the federal civil
Mary Jackson was a mathematician and aerospace engineer at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), which in 1958 was succeeded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). She worked at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, for most of her career. She started as a computer at the segregated West Area Computing division