Annie Easley in LEGO

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This vignette featuring Ada Lovelace is part of "Women of Computing," a project on the LEGO Ideas contest celebrating six pioneering women in technology. If this project receives 10,000 votes, you could soon buy one at a LEGO store near you!

Easley played numerous important roles over more than 30 years with NASA. At what is now the John Glenn Research Center, she began as a human computer, specializing in mathematical computations. As computing machines became prevalent, Easley became a math technician and programmer. She is best known for the software she contributed to Centaur upper-stage rockets, which launched space probes to Mars and the outer solar system and helped lay the foundations for launching NASA's space shuttles. Easley also studied energy applications including batteries, solar, and wind, and gave back to her community as an equal employment opportunity counselor. She is seen in this vignette in the central control room of NASA's Lewis Engine Research Building, with a model of a Titan rocket bearing a Centaur upper stage.

The full Women of NASA set includes five additional minifigures — of Ada Lovelace, Grace Hopper, Betty Holberton, Jean Jennings Bartik, and Gladys West — plus vignettes related to their own accomplishments.

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