NASA Langley Research Center scientists, 1959. These pioneering women scientists are: Lucille Coltrane, Jean Clark Keating, Katherine Cullie Speegle,
NASA Langley Research Center scientists, 1959. These pioneering women scientists are: Lucille Coltrane, Jean Clark Keating, Katherine Cullie Speegle, Doris 'Dot' Lee, Ruth Whitman, and Emily Stephens Mueller. NASA's Langley Research Center, Virginia, USA, was originally founded in 1917 as an aeronautical laboratory under the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). By 1958, it was part of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) that administered the American space programme. Key advances in aircraft and rocket technology (photos and models in background) occurred here. Photographed in January 1959.
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