
Dovie Lacy, who first and foremost sees herself as a teacher, took a circuitous route to arrive at NASA –…

Melanie Saunders found out, in the most joyous way, that “work-life” balance can be tipped – in triplicate – in…

Wanda Peters remembers, as a child, having her cartoons interrupted by the Apollo 11 lunar landing. While it was an…

Christine Belcastro long aspired to become an engineer but, as a female, thought the door was closed to her. Imagine…

Wendy Pennington discovered her natural passion and inclination for engineering while enrolled in a mechanical drafting class in high school.…

Diep Nguyen’s life took a major detour on the morning of April 30, 1975, when she boarded a helicopter piloted…

Maria Nowak’s search for a broader meaning in life took her from the floor of a 1950s-themed restaurant where she…

Dinna LeDuff Cottrell, whose professional life has been focused on information technology, believes “the key to increasing the number of…

Dorothy “Dottie” Metcalf-Lindenburger, the daughter of two teachers with a love of the space program, has “The Right Stuff.” As…

Although Tarrie Hood longed to be part of NASA, a “world-class organization in which cutting-edge technology was the standard and…