Astronomy and Space

Barbara Paulson

Barbara Jean Paulson (née Lewis; April 11, 1928 – February 26, 2023) was an American human computer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and one of the first female scientists employed there. Paulson began working as a mathematician at JPL in 1948, where she calculated rocket trajectories by hand. She is among the women who made early progress at JPL.

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• ▸1978 in spaceflight
• ▸First Persian invasion of Greece
• ▸Cetus (constellation)

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