TIME Magazineさんのインスタグラム写真 - (TIME MagazineInstagram)「Frances “Poppy” Northcutt was the first woman to work in an operational support role in the Mission Control Center in Houston during the Apollo program. There were a lot of women in computer programming roles at the time—as 2016's @hiddenfiguresmovie made clear—and Northcutt started out in one of those roles at @nasa in 1965, shortly after graduating from @utaustintx. Her title? Computress. “What a weird title this is,” she tells TIME she recalls thinking. “Not only do they think I’m a computer, but they think I’m a gendered computer.” Northcutt did number-crunching for the Gemini program, the predecessor to the Apollo program, and was promoted a little over a year later. She was on the team that specialized in the maneuvers that put the spacecraft on course to return to Earth. During missions including Apollo 8, #Apollo11 and Apollo 13, Northcutt sat in a staff support room that the directors in the general mission control room would call if they needed assistance. She was the only woman in her job at the time. Read the full interview, and see more of our #Apollo50th coverage, at the link in bio. Photograph by TRW/PhotoQuest—@gettyimages」7月18日 6時44分