The Invisible Women of the Apollo Missions: without Them, Humanity Would Not Have Reached the Moon

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57 years ago, during the Apollo 11 mission, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first people to land on the Moon. They were followed by ten other astronauts, all of them men. Women made up less than 5 percent of NASA's Apollo program staff, but their role became critical—they designed spacecraft, calculated flight trajectories, monitored astronauts' vital signs, developed software, and helped astronauts return safely to Earth. U…