This article originally appeared on Massive. There’s a famous photo of Annie Easley. She’s standing next to a huge control panel with dials, lights, buttons from floor to ceiling. She looks ...

Easley tutored school students, became a recruiter for NASA and worked as its Equal Employment Opportunity officer during her tenure. She spoke in her oral history interview about how she handled ...

Today we take a look at the life and work of Annie Easley. Few people are brilliant enough to be a computer programmer or a mathematician. Even fewer can add "rocket scientist for NASA" to their ...