Jun 25, 2019
The Women Of Mission Control
During the Apollo Era, mission control was almost completely exclusive to men.
Poppy Northcutt – mission control’s first female engineer – recalls open sexism upon her arrival in the 1960s. Decades later, she returns to Johnson Space Center for another first: She meets a female leader in mission control.
See videos and behind the scenes images at HoustonPublicMedia.org/Moon.