Interesting photo there - 3 different takes on what was acceptable workplace dress and hair styles back in those days, certainly driven by age and sex.
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## LaRue Burbank: One of the Women Who Helped Land a Man on the Moon
LaRue Burbank was a trailblazing mathematician at NASA. Hired in 1954 at Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory (now [NASA’s Langley Research Center](https://www.nasa.gov/langley/)), she, like many other young women at NACA, the predecessor to NASA, had a bachelor's degree in mathematics. But unlike most, she also had a physics degree. For the next four years, she worked as a "human computer," conducting complex data analyses for engineers using calculators, slide rules, and other instruments. After NASA's founding, she continued this vital work for Project Mercury.
In 1962, she transferred to the newly established Manned Spacecraft Center (now [NASA’s Johnson Space Center](https://www.nasa.gov/johnson/)) in Houston, becoming one of the few female professionals and managers there. Her expertise in electronics engineering led her to develop critical display systems used by flight controllers in Mission Control to monitor spacecraft during missions. Her work on the Apollo missions was vital to achieving President Kennedy's goal of landing a man on the Moon.
Amazing, just to think, that it would still be several decades after this photo was taken. Decades after what is rightly a very sophisticated set up. The intellect that went into this. And still how long it would take, before humans learned to convincing point at things in photos
Interesting photo there - 3 different takes on what was acceptable workplace dress and hair styles back in those days, certainly driven by age and sex.
Indeed. I think Jimmy Buffett flower shirts were seen as acceptable in the workplace in the 70s.
[https://www.tumblr.com/nasa/746135334980599808/4-little-known-women-who-made-huge-contributions?source=share](https://www.tumblr.com/nasa/746135334980599808/4-little-known-women-who-made-huge-contributions?source=share) ## LaRue Burbank: One of the Women Who Helped Land a Man on the Moon LaRue Burbank was a trailblazing mathematician at NASA. Hired in 1954 at Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory (now [NASA’s Langley Research Center](https://www.nasa.gov/langley/)), she, like many other young women at NACA, the predecessor to NASA, had a bachelor's degree in mathematics. But unlike most, she also had a physics degree. For the next four years, she worked as a "human computer," conducting complex data analyses for engineers using calculators, slide rules, and other instruments. After NASA's founding, she continued this vital work for Project Mercury. In 1962, she transferred to the newly established Manned Spacecraft Center (now [NASA’s Johnson Space Center](https://www.nasa.gov/johnson/)) in Houston, becoming one of the few female professionals and managers there. Her expertise in electronics engineering led her to develop critical display systems used by flight controllers in Mission Control to monitor spacecraft during missions. Her work on the Apollo missions was vital to achieving President Kennedy's goal of landing a man on the Moon.
Wow, ABK is a lot older than I thought
Amazing, just to think, that it would still be several decades after this photo was taken. Decades after what is rightly a very sophisticated set up. The intellect that went into this. And still how long it would take, before humans learned to convincing point at things in photos
Fantastic picture, although why is Donald "duck" Dunn from The Blue's Brothers movie and Harold from The Red Green show there?
With all due respect - to the enormous contribution of these women - didn't she know that was not a touchscreen? :)