Women’s contributions to aerospace materials ensure aircraft and rockets that survive the rigors of air and space travel. This chapter covers six women trailblazers who have helped improve the safety and efficiency of air and space travel. Beatrice Hicks, the first president of the Society of Women Engineers, invented the gas density sensor used to monitor artificial atmospheres protecting sealed airborne electric equipment. Yvonne Brill invented the hydrazine/hydrazine resistojet propulsion engine used to keep communication satellites aloft. The “Queen of Carbon Science” Mildred Dresselhaus made crucial advances in the understanding of the thermal and electric properties of carbon nanomaterials. Astronaut Bonnie Dunbar played a key role in the development of the ceramic tiles that form the heat shield for the space shuttle. Tresa Pollock is known worldwide for her expertise in advanced structural alloys with applications in the aerospace, energy, and automotive industries. Astronaut Cady Coleman worked as a research chemist investigating organic polymers.


    Zugriff

    Zugriff prüfen

    Verfügbarkeit in meiner Bibliothek prüfen

    Bestellung bei Subito €


    Exportieren, teilen und zitieren



    Titel :

    Aerospace Trailblazers


    Weitere Titelangaben:

    Women in Engineering and Science


    Beteiligte:
    Kinsella, Mary E. (Herausgeber:in) / Tietjen, Jill S. (Autor:in)


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    21.05.2020


    Format / Umfang :

    17 pages





    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch




    Interplanetary trailblazers

    Comeille, Philip | Online Contents | 2007


    Women in engineering : pioneers and trailblazers

    Layne, Margaret E. | TIBKAT | 2009


    Chinese EV Players: From Followers to Trailblazers

    Yang, Jan Y. / Gu, Yunyi / Tan, Zi Ling | Springer Verlag | 2023


    Into that silent sea : trailblazers of the Space Era, 1961 - 1965

    French, Francis ;Burgess, Colin | SLUB | 2007