Lost in Space Race: Women Denied Proper Place in History

This 1955 photo of women scientists at JPL, motivated science writer Nathalia Holt to track down the early women pioneers of NASA. Although 14 women are depicted in the photograph, the archives at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, could identify only three of its former employees and had no contact information for them. As the women in the photograph gripped their pencils, their images remained frozen in time, their names and stories seemingly lost to history. Sadly, our pioneering scientists are frequently forgotten, and it is the contributions of women that are most often overlooked. Read More…