Who Was Melba Mouton? NASA Names Moon Mountain After Mathematician

The United States’ space agency NASA named a mountain on the moon in honour of mathematician Melba Mouton whose contribution paved way for operating satellites in space.Â
The United States’ space agency NASA named a mountain on the moon in honour of mathematician Melba Mouton whose contribution paved way for operating satellites in space.Â
The NASA engineer is leading the team that is responsible for sending Artemis I to space.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has chosen 24-year-old Athira Preetha Rani, a resident of Thiruvananthapuram, for its astronaut training programme.
Jessica Watkins will be the first black woman to Join NASA’s Commercial Crew Programme for a long-duration mission.
She wrote, “I don’t know why my name got tied into this but someone has created a scam using a 14 yr old girl in India and her dream of being a scientist. If Diksha really has a passion for Astronomy she can reach out to me and I’ll find some legitimate pathways for her passion.”
Oliveira who was fascinated by stars from a tender age asked for a star from her mother when she was two years old. Following the same, Oliveira’s mother bought her a toy star. However, now she knows that her daughter wanted a real star.
Priyanka Srivastava’s mother wouldn’t even spend on bindis, in order to be able to afford her daughter’s education. Read how this Lucknow girl was integral to NASA’s Mars Mission.
Priyanka Srivastava, a girl from Lucknow was one of the nine ‘desis’ to make NASA’s Perseverance Rover land successfully on Mars. Shrivastava was a part of the systems engineer team associated with the mission in the capacity of a systems engineer
The mission is claimed to be a gamechanger for the NASA mars programme as this is the first time a rover will be sent there as the initial step to bringing back samples from Mars.
Meet Yogita Shah who is the avionics domain lead at NASA and also a part of the Perseverance rover team to the Red Planet.