Rocket Ranch - Episode 28: Women in STEM

The Rocket Ranch by Amanda Griffin

Mar 18, 202122:29Science & Medicine

When instrumentation controller JoAnn Morgan was in Firing Room number One for the historic moonshot in 1969, she was the only woman. NASA has come a long way since. Today, the very same firing room is led by a woman, an...

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