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Melba Roy Mouton

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African-American Assistant Chief of Research Programs at NASA

United StatesAcademicsLived 1929 to 1990 · aged 61
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Melba Roy Mouton was an African American mathematician who served as Assistant Chief of Research Programs at NASA's Trajectory and Geodynamics Division in the 1960s and headed a group of NASA mathematicians called "computers".

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Melba Roy Mouton was an African American mathematician who served as Assistant Chief of Research Programs at NASA's Trajectory and Geodynamics Division in the 1960s and headed a group of NASA mathematicians called "computers". She served as Head Mathematician for Echo Satellites 1 and 2 before becoming Head Computer Programmer and then Program Production Section Chief at Goddard Space Flight Center.

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United States
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deceased
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Lived 1929 to 1990 · aged 61
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