Dr. Christine Darden, NASA Aeronautical Engineer
Christine Darden in the control room of NASA Langley's Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel in 1975. In 1967, Christine Darden (born September 10, 1942) was added to the pool of "human computers" who wrote complex programs and tediously crunched numbers for engineers at NASA's Langley Research Center. Over the ensuing course of her 40-year career at NASA, she led an advisory team composed of representatives from industrial manufacturers and academic institutions, became the deputy program manager of The TU-144 Experiments Program, and, in 1999, she was appointed as the director in the Program Management Office of the Aerospace Performing Center where she was responsible for Langley research in air traffic management and other aeronautics programs managed at other NASA Centers. Darden served as technical consultant on numerous government and private projects, and she is the author of more than 50 publications in the field of high lift wing design in supersonic flow, flap design, sonic boom prediction, and sonic boom minimization. She was the first African-American woman at NASA's Langley Research Center to be promoted into senior executive service.
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