Melba Roy (1929-1990)
Melba Roy Mouton
NASA Career: 1959-1973
Note: “She tracked early Echo satellites in Earth orbit. Roy’s computations helped produce the orbital element
timetables by which millions saw the satellite from Earth as it passed overhead.” [unsung-heroines.tumblr.com]
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Callan, Jim. 2009. America in the 1960s. New York: Facts on File.
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Wednesday Geek Woman: Melba Roy Mouton – Geek Feminism.org
A woman in IT we should know more about: Melba Roy – IBM Developer Works [Blogs], February 15, 2013.
Meet Melba Roy Mouton – a Head Computer Programmer & Assistant Chief of Research at NASA
Melba Roy – Computer at NASA Goddard