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Breaking NASA's Glass Ceiling

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
November 20, 2008

America’s Best Leaders: Fiona Harrison & Maria Zuber, NASA scientists, US News & World Report

“Maria Zuber noticed something strange on her first NASA mission. As a geophysicist in the 1980s, she was working on the science team designing the Mars Observer, an unmanned spacecraft that was supposed to be the first to study the geoscience and climate of Mars. “Somebody called me up,” she recalls, “and said, ‘Do you know on this mission there are 87 science investigators, and you’re the only woman?'”

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