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Mary Golda Ross, The First Known Native American Female Engineer, Is Being Honored With A New Statue
What Did Mary Golda Ross Do?
source: smithsonianmag.com
According to the Smithsonian, Mary worked on the P-38 Lightning fighter plane. Subsequently, she became the sole woman on the first staff at Lockheed’s Skunk Works, the firm’s “then-top-secret think tank.”
Though most of her aerospace research is classified, she worked on the P-38 fighter jet, ballistic missiles, and the Agena rocket utilized in NASA’s Gemini human spaceflight program throughout her time there. In the end, the Gemini mission aided NASA in preparing for the Apollo moon landings.
