Mary Golda Ross, born in the Cherokee Nation, became Lockheed Aircraft Corporation's first female engineer in 1942, where she worked on the P-38 Lightning fighter plane as one of the forty founding members of the ultra-secret Skunk Works division; she later transitioned to the space race, authoring preliminary design concepts for flyby missions to Mars and Venus and calculating orbital trajectories for the Agena rocket, thereby laying critical groundwork for NASA's Apollo program and demonstrating that indigenous women could conquer the cosmos.
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