NASA names headquarters after first Black female engineer Mary W. Jackson

Re:NASA names headquarters after first Black female engineer... by nickff on Thursday June 25, 2020 @01:03AM (#23637098)

Dryden was much more important to NASA than Armstrong was. Armstrong was lucky to be assigned Apollo 11; he was not the best test pilot (having crashed an X-15 due to his own recklessness).

If they were going to pick people who greatly contributed to the success of the Apollo program, they should have picked Houbolt.

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Re:NASA names headquarters after first Black female engineer... by justin66 on Thursday June 25, 2020 @01:36AM (#23637257)

If only Armstrong had accomplished something that made up for overshooting the runway and scraping the paint on the bottom of an experimental aircraft, perhaps then he'd be worthy of having a building at Edwards named after him. I cannot imagine what sort of act might erase the stain of that kind of universal infamy.

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Re:NASA names headquarters after first Black female engineer... by cheschire on Thursday June 25, 2020 @01:49AM (#23637302)

I mean, a dog AND a couple monkeys made it up to space right? How hard can it be? And the landing part is just falling with style.

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Re:NASA names headquarters after first Black female engineer... by jjeaff on Thursday June 25, 2020 @01:39PM (#23643265)

Not sure if you are aware, but Armstrong is not famous because he just "went to space".

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