# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/christine-darden
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:25:20.542Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/christine-darden"
name: "Christine Darden"
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description: "Christine Darden is an American aeronautical engineer who devoted much of her 40-year career in aerodynamics at NASA to research supersonic flight and sonic booms. She was the first African-American woman at NASA's Langley Research Center to be promoted to the Senior Executive Service, the top rank in the federal civil service."
tagline: "African-American mathematician, aerospace engineer"
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category:
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birthDate: "1942-09-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump