By group 2, the innovators

 SALLY RIDE  AERONAUTIC SCIENCE

 In thousands of women employed in the Aerospace Industry  In thousands of women employed in the Aerospace Industry.  In 15 years, women employed were cut in half.  thousands total employed in the Aerospace industry or about 17% of the total employed are women. Brendan Wang

Dr. Jani Macari Pallis Associate Professor University of Bridgeport A biomedical industrial, mechanical and aeronautical engineer CEO of Cislunar Aerospace, Inc. "Do it. Don't let anyone discourage you," says Pallis. She decided she wanted to be an engineer when she was 12. Thirty years later she got her PhD. Her advice comes from a favorite professor. "He said, 'I'm not the smartest engineer, but I worked harder than anyone.' That's been my attitude.“ Michelle Sandov

 In 1958, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) began a project called Mercury 7.  Among 508 pilots, NASA selected 7 first American men Astronauts.  After several successful missions, NASA was able to prove human space flight that led to different programs, like APOLO  After four decades, voluntary feminists (some men and women) started wondering to try out the tests of Mercury 7 on females.

 The society believed that women do not have guts to perform tremendously incredible activities, such as Aeronautics.  Although females already started participating in different sciences in that era, it took them around 40 years to explore aeronautics, after the first men astronauts – Mercury 7.  It was mistakenly understood that Aeronautics was only for men. -It was roughly and hereditarily assumed that women would not be able to handle such big activity. -After 4 decades of men’s dominance of the science, the females started the first air rigorous tests – called Mercury 7.

 This was a great era that the realization of gender equality and the beginning of eradicating gender discrimination happened.  This was the time women started emerging on difficult areas like engineering.  This was the era in which the possibility of extraordinary activities, like Aeronautics, was also done by women as equal as men Asgedom Asmelash

First woman to graduate in general engineering from University of Illinois in 1946

 Early assignments included flight dynamics, recovery of supersonic gliders, lunar reentry vehicle research, and orbital rendezvous.  In 5 years she moved up to be a senior engineer to work on several missile projects.  In 1968 she was named a manager of Mission Requirements and Evaluations on the Apollo program.  In 1973 she received a medallion from NASA in recognition of the major role she played in the Apollo 11 mission. Dmitriy Banov