An American aerospace engineer and a member of the Cherokee Nation, a great-granddaughter of Cherokee Chief John Ross. Hired by Lockheed as a mathematician in 1942, she was the only woman among the forty founding engineers of Lockheed's Skunk Works advanced-development program in 1952, contributing preliminary design work on the Agena rocket and early concepts for interplanetary spaceflight.
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NationalityAmerican (Cherokee Nation) 1 Defining ContributionThe only woman among Lockheed Skunk Works' forty founding engineers in 1952; contributed to the Agena rocket program and to early preliminary design concepts for interplanetary space travel and orbiting satellites. 1 Connections
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Ross worked at Lockheed Aircraft Corporation and its Skunk Works division from 1942 into the 1970s, predating the 1995 Lockheed Martin merger by decades; the predecessor company's own work is captured here against the surviving successor entity, per the atlas's predecessor-institution convention.
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Ross was the first Native American woman to obtain this certification
2. Mary Golda Ross (Wikipedia)
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Mary Golda Ross (August 9, 1908, April 29, 2008) was a Cherokee and American aerospace engineer.
- Mary Golda Ross, infobox
- Mary Golda Ross, Early life and education section
- Associated With: Lockheed Martin, Mary Golda Ross, Career section
In Group: American Spacecraft and Rocket Engineers, Lead sentence
Mary Golda Ross (August 9, 1908, April 29, 2008) was a Cherokee and American aerospace engineer.
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