Early Life

• Born Sept. 10 1942, North Carolina
• Youngest of 5 children
• Born to Noah Horace Sr. an insurance agent and Desma Chaney Mann a elementary school teacher

Education

• Winchester Avenue high school ( Monroe, NC )
• Allen High School ( formerly the Allen High School for negro girls) ( Asheville, NC )
• Graduated Allen in 1958
• Hampton Normal and Agriculture institute ( VA )
• 1962 recieved B.S. Degree in mathematics
• Masters Degree in Applied Mathematics from Virginia state 1967
• D.S. degree in mechanical engineering with a specialty in fluid mechanics from George Washington University 1983

Career

• 1962 - 1963 she was a mathematics instructor at Russell High ( Lawrenceville, VA )
• 1964 - 1965 she taught at Norcom High School ( Portsmouth, VA)
• Data-analysis for NASA
• 1973 Promoted to Aerospace engineer
• 1989 appointed as the technical leader of NASA's sonic boom group

NACA-NASA

1. A committee of 12 volunteers embarked on a mission to change the face of U.S aviation 95 years ago
2. They only had a budget of $5,000
3. The national advisory committee of Aeronautics was established by Congress ( March 3rd, 1915)
4. NACA morphed into NASA in 1958
5. The nation's best Aeronautics engineer's had established world-class laboratories
6. NASA won 5 Collier trophies the greatest honor in aviation
7. There are no production airplanes anywhere in the world that don't rely on some of NACA's research