Judy Sullivan, American Biomedical Engineer

During a training exercise for the first lunar landing mission, NASA biomedical engineer Judy Sullivan monitors a console in the KSC Manned Spacecraft Operations Building. When astronauts were training for Apollo missions, they were fitted with small sensors that would provide crucial data about respiration, body temperature and heartbeats. As was the case in Projects Mercury and Gemini, the sensors kept flight surgeons informed on the health of the astronauts during the trips into space. Sullivan would monitor the equipment and ensure the information was provided to the proper sources. She was the first woman engineer hired by NASA to support spacecraft testing. As preparations were underway for Apollo 11, the 26-year-old Sullivan was one of only 100 women, including 16 engineers, serving in top positions at the Florida spaceport. While well accepted by her male counterparts, she was often referenced as That Guy as a parody to the popular television show of the time, That Girl

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