Jaylee Mead

Jaylee Mead dies: NASA astronomer was a cultural benefactor in D.C., Washington Post
“Jaylee Mead and her husband, Gilbert, came, in some ways, from different universes. Gilbert was an heir to the riches of Consolidated Papers in Wisconsin — one of the largest papermakers in North America — while Jaylee was the daughter of a general store owner in rural North Carolina. They worked together for years at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, he as a geophysicist and she as an astronomer, one of the few women of her generation to pursue a career in astrophysics.”