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Christine Belcastro
Christine Belcastro

Christine Belcastro long aspired to become an engineer but, as a female, thought the door was closed to her. Imagine…

Wendy Pennington
Wendy Pennington

Wendy Pennington discovered her natural passion and inclination for engineering while enrolled in a mechanical drafting class in high school.…

Diep Nguyen
Diep Nguyen

Diep Nguyen’s life took a major detour on the morning of April 30, 1975, when she boarded a helicopter piloted…

Maria Nowak
Maria Nowak

Maria Nowak’s search for a broader meaning in life took her from the floor of a 1950s-themed restaurant where she…

Dinna Cottrell
Dinna Cottrell

Dinna LeDuff Cottrell, whose professional life has been focused on information technology, believes “the key to increasing the number of…

Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger
Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger

Dorothy “Dottie” Metcalf-Lindenburger, the daughter of two teachers with a love of the space program, has “The Right Stuff.” As…

Tarrie Hood
Tarrie Hood

Although Tarrie Hood longed to be part of NASA, a “world-class organization in which cutting-edge technology was the standard and…

Robin Henderson
Robin Henderson

Robin Henderson’s life changed forever and for the better when, in her first year of college, a man offered her…

Ginger Kerrick
Ginger Kerrick

As a child, Ginger Kerrick dreamed of growing up to be either a basketball player or an astronaut. When neither…

Huy Tran
Huy Tran

While Neil Armstrong was taking his first steps on the surface of the moon, a 6-year-old girl named Huy Tran…