11 Women Engineers Who Helped Launch Apollo 11

My wife and I watched a special CBS program honoring the 50 year anniversary of the historic Apollo 11 mission. We both agreed that what made this program so interesting, beyond seeing the wealth of film from the CBS archives and the commentary of the mission by Walter Cronkite, was the inclusion of excerpts of an interview with Neil Armstrong by Ed Bradley in 2005. We learned a great many things we had not known before about the mission.

Neil Armstrong became one of the most famous people of the 20th Century, however in the interview, he gave credit for the success of the mission to the thousands of extraordinarily talented people behind the scenes. So it cannot be a coincidence that an article in the latest ASME SmartBrief caught my eye. It is about 11 of those people Neil spoke of, all women. I invite you to read about these remarkable women, who I am sure would agree with Neil that the success of Apollo 11, and missions before and after, is due to extraordinarily talented men and women. - Dr. Tom

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