# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/susan-g-finley
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:43:00.276Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/susan-g-finley"
name: "Susan G. Finley"
slug: "susan-g-finley"
description: "Susan G. Finley, a native Californian, has been an employee of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) since January 1958, making her the longest-serving woman in NASA. Two days before Explorer 1 was launched, Finley began her career with the laboratory as a human computer, calculating rocket launch trajectories by hand. She now serves as a subsystem engineer for NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN). At JPL, she has participated in the exploration of the Moon, the Sun, all the planets, and other bodies in the Solar System."
tagline: "Software engineer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sue_Finley_JPL.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1901"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.138877333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "سوزن جی فنلی"
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    title: "Susan G. Finley"
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    title: "Susan G. Finley"
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    title: "சுசான் பின்லே"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump