Stock Photo - 1968 - Poppy Northcutt, a mathematician at the Houston Operations of TRW's Systems Group, staffs a console in NASA's Mission Control Center-Houston and is responsible for computing manoeuvres which would bring the Apollo spacecraft home from the Moon. Poppy was on duty in the Control Center when Apollo 8 and Apollo 10 launched out of lunar orbit for their return to the Earth. The 25-year-old native of Dayton, Texas, joined TRW and the Apollo program immediately following her graduation from The University of Texas. She participated in the development of the complex computer programs which help Astronauts return from their lunar journeys. (Credit Image: © Keystone Pictures USA/ZUMAPRESS.com)