Women of the Apollo Program Women of the Apollo Program The Women of the Apollo Program is a book written by Robyn Friend, illustrated by David Katz, about 4 women who participated in the United States space program during the Apollo Program. Female members of the Apollo Space Program included Bobbie Johnson, Judith Love Cohen, Ann Dickson, and Ann Maybury. Apollo 11 landed on the Moon on July 20, 1969. Judy worked as an electrical engineer on the abort guidance system of the Apollo Program. The abort guidance system was used during the Apollo 13 mission to safely return the astronauts to the Earth after
Apollo program stages, carrying dummy upper stages filled with water. The first flight with a live S-IV was launched from LC-37. This was followed by five launches of boilerplate CSMs (designated AS-101 through AS-105) into orbit in 1964 and 1965. The last three of these further supported the Apollo program by also carrying Pegasus satellites, which verified the safety of the translunar environment by measuring the frequency and severity of micrometeorite impacts. In September 1962, NASA planned to launch four manned CSM flights on the Saturn I from late 1965 through 1966, concurrent with Project Gemini. The payload capacity would have severely