Archives of American Aerospace Exploration (AAAE)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: If you use this subject heading, please use the local "Science and Technology" heading, too.Found in 42 Collections and/or Records:
Marjorie Rhodes Townsend Papers,
Collection
Identifier: Ms-1986-003
Abstract
Marjorie Rhodes Townsend was the first women to earn an engineering degree at The George Washington University, receiving her Bachelor of Electrical Engineering in 1951. After eight years at the Naval Research Laboratory, she moved to National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Goddard Space Flight Center in 1959, where she worked until 1980. Townsend was project manager for three Small Astronomy Satellites (SAS, 1966-75) and for Applications Explorer Missions (1975-76), and later had...
Dates:
1961 - 1994
Found in:
Special Collections, Virginia Tech