Eleanor Foraker

Eleanor ("Ellie") Foraker (September 2, 1930 – December 8, 2011)[1][2] was an American seamstress who worked at the International Latex Corporation (ILC) and at NASA.[1] She left the Playtex division of ILC Dover in 1964 and then worked on underground inflatable oil tanks and gas masks to aid the development of the A7L spacesuit for the Apollo 11 mission.[1][3] She also stitched together the airbag system that was used to land the Sojourner rover on Mars for the Pathfinder Mission.[1][4]

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  2. ^ Brueck, Hilary. "Women made the Apollo moon landing possible — here are the crucial technologies and calculations they contributed". Business Insider. Retrieved 2021-11-14.
  3. ^ de Monchaux, Nicholas (2011). Spacesuit : fashioning Apollo. MIT Press. pp. 209–211, 219. ISBN 978-0-262-01520-2. OCLC 776119891.
  4. ^ "Airbag Test Page". mars.nasa.gov. Retrieved 2021-11-14.