Also at Goddard was Dorothy Hoover, embarking on the third (or fourth, or maybe fifth) act of her career. Following her graduate work at the University of Michigan, Hoover had worked at the Weather Bureau for three years. Perhaps nostalgic for the agency that had boosted her mathematical career, she transferred to Goddard in 1959, the only one of the centers that had been created organically out of NASA. Her career advance had continued; she now held a senior ranking of GS-13. While her colleagues at Langley put their minds to work on the engineering project of the century, Dorothy Hoover
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