Melba Roy Mouton

Melba Roy Mouton was an American mathematician who served as Assistant Chief of Research Programs at NASA's Trajectory and Geodynamics Division in the 1960s and headed a group of NASA mathematicians called "computers". She served as Head Mathematician for Echo Satellites 1 and 2 before becoming Head Computer Programmer and then Program Production Section Chief at Goddard Space Flight Center.

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20,000-foot-tall mountain on the moon named in honor of trailblazing computer scientist Melba Roy Mouton