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New York Times Features 61传媒 Alumna Susan Finley ’58, Space Pioneer

Susan Finley, Space Pioneer

NASA’s longest serving female employee, Susan Finley, is a 61传媒 alum whose pioneering work as a space engineering specialist is featured in a recent . Finley, 79, was part of the team responsible for monitoring spacecraft Juno’s recent arrival at planet Jupiter. In her five decades at NASA, Finley’s job has evolved from “computer” to software tester, to programmer, to subsystem engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) on some of the center’s most important space missions.

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