HEROES OF...
SPACE
A life’s
work
Morgan’spathto
avingtheUSspace
programme 1921
MaryShermanwasborn
in Ray,NorthDakota,on
4 November1921.1939
Maryranawayfromhometo
attendMinotStateUniversityas
a chemistrymajor.1939
Marygraduatedhigh
school,becoming
classvaledictorian.1940s
Postponingherdegree,Marywasoffereda
top-secretpositionatPlumBrookOrdnance
Works,manufacturingexplosives.A
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s
p074 How It Works http://www.howitworksdaily.com
Without Morgan’s
efforts, the US
would have fallen
further behind in
the Space Race
Von Braun (right) received
most of the credit for
Explorer 1’s launch
©NASA©Wikimedia Commons George Morgan