Margot Shetterly - Hidden Figures

GS-13 to GS-15 grades, 255

Head Girls, 91–92

Langley Research administration, 264

as mathematicians, 115, 143, 166

NASA deputy assistant administrator, xiii

NASA Technical Assistant to Division Chief of Space Systems, 258

no-air girls, 58

in “Red engineering schools,” 158

research mathematicians, 81–82

scientists at Langley, xvi, 179–180, 257, 305

in soap box derby, 194, 196

test pilot Ann Baumgartner Carl, 55

theoretical engineers, 112, 115

Virginia Tucker recruiting, 5, 86, 197

Woodard, Dudley Weldon, 13

Woods, David, xiii

Woodson, Carter G., 72–73

Wright, Orville, 46, 53, 55, 188, 283

Wright, Ray, 110

X for experimental planes, 57, 59

X-1 plane, 85, 99–100

X-15 rocket plane, 138, 163–164

X-15 simulator, 227

Yeager, Chuck, 85, 99, 227

Young, John, 246, 249, 314

Young, P. B., 34

Young, Pearl

FBI questioning, 101–102

Langley technical editor, 40, 85, 178

MARGOT LEE SHETTERLY is a writer who grew up in Hampton, Virginia, where she knew many of the women in Hidden Figures . She is an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow and the recipient of a Virginia Foundation for the Humanities grant for her research into the history of women in computing. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

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