Ann McNair and Mary Jo Smith with Pegasus Satellite, 1964
In this photo taken in 1964, Ann McNair and Mary Jo Smith pose with a model of a Pegasus Satellite. Ann McNair’s involvement in NASA's Saturn program included her role as deputy manager of the Orbital Analysis Branch developing flight trajectory studies and determining how long satellites might remain in orbit. Early on, McNair authored several papers on the lifetime of satellites and on comparing onboard and ground tracking for lunar missions. From 1965 to 1967, she served as a group chief within the Information Systems Office, supporting the planning and execution of all Apollo flights. Mary Jo Smith was a physicist, assigned to the Marshall’s Research Projects Division to work on plans for the Pegasus meteoroid detection satellites launched aboard a Saturn I rocket in the early 1960s.
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