But the job became so demanding that it was just so difficult to do that part-time. I took summer classes, night school classes while I was working there. It was just at that time within Nasa that women were given opportunities other than secretarial.
“It was probably years later that I fully recognized how lucky I had been, because it was first job, I had nothing to compare it to. In an interview for the Nasa Johnson Space Center oral history project in 2008, she recalled: “As a young woman, I was extremely lucky I did feel like it was a golden opportunity for me.
When changes were made to the flight checklist, she had enough technical knowledge to see that they were made correctly.”įor Apollo 11, Flowers was grateful to have been at the right place at the right time. Jamye Flowers, who had joined Nasa straight out of school, was Apollo 11’s crew secretary, a position that required a troubleshooting all-rounder willing to work long hours.Īccording to the Smithsonian Institution’s Air & Space magazine, “Coplin wrote their frequent travel orders, ran interference when outsiders wanted access, traveled with them to the Cape for launches, kept their wives informed, and even babysat their children. A 21-year-old woman from Texas was responsible for making sure that Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins were prepared and in the right frame of mind to make history on the moon.
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