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Admirable Women
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Mathematician & geodeist Dr. Irene Fischer helped guide NASA to the moon. Joining the US Army Map Service in 1952, she unified centuries of broken data to calculate the Earth’s precise size/shape. Her calculations allowed NASA to safely program Apollo moon landing trajectories. 🧵 #WomenInSTEM

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She looks like a no none sense math teacher. Dr. Irene: GoBeavs87 where's ur homework? GoBeavs87: the dog ate it. Dr. Irene: the odds of that ever happening--she says- while calculating is astronomical.

Admirable Women
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Before satellites existed, Fischer mapped the "Astrogeoid"--the planet's irregular geometric bumps caused by massive mountain ranges. Her data became the "Fischer Ellipsoid," a master global map model that modernized data grids across entire continents like South America. #WomeninSTEM

Admirable Women
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She was the first woman at her agency to win the Distinguished Civilian Service Award. Her structural equations laid the foundation for the World Geodetic System, which engineers later used to build the satellite network powering modern smartphone GPS. She died #OTD in 2009. #WomenInSTEM #geodesy