1949: The women of the Computer Department at the NACA High-Speed Flight Research Station (now NASA Armstrong) at Edwards, California, were responsible for accurate calculations on the research test flights made at the station.

June 24, 1983: Sally Ride, the first American woman to go into space, and her fellow astronauts on Space Shuttle Challenger STS-7 mission greet NASA Dryden (now Armstrong) employees and visitors following her historic space shuttle mission at Edwards, California.

April 8, 1984: Einar Enevoldson and Marta Bohn-Meyer deliver the F-14A from Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland, to NASA Dryden (now Armstrong) at Edwards, California.

Oct. 3, 1991: Marta Bohn-Meyer becomes first female flight test engineer assigned to the SR-71, a high-speed, high-altitude aeronautical research test bed, at NASA Dryden (now Armstrong) at Edwards, California.

Oct. 24, 2000: Pilot Pam Melroy, now NASA’s deputy administrator, is among the seven-member crew of the Space Shuttle Discovery STS-92 mission that lands at Edwards, California.

Aug. 9, 2005: STS-114 Commander Eileen Collins and the crew of Space Shuttle Discovery land safely at NASA’s Dryden (now Armstrong) at Edwards, California.