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Women Over 70: Aging Reimagined

157 Frances ‘Poppy’ Northcutt: One Time Rocket Scientist, Sometime Lawyer, Full Time Feminist

Jan 28, 2022
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Frances “Poppy” Northcutt gained national fame as the first and only woman in NASA’s mission control room working on the Apollo Program.  Poppy and her team designed the Return-to-Earth trajectory that took the Apollo 8 crew around the Moon and back to Earth. She worked on missions 10-13 and helped retrieve the Apollo 13 astronauts after their mid-flight disaster. After cuts in the space program, Poppy continued her advocacy for women’s rights as a felony prosecutor in a domestic violence unit. Now in semi-retirement, Poppy’s advocacy is focused on reproductive justice, as the attorney for Jane’s Due Process, providing legal services to pregnant teen-age girls. She holds leadership positions with NOW, nationally and in the state of Texas.


I’ve always been involved with something that has to do with an equal state for women.  - Frances "Poppy" Northcutt


Email: poppynor@gmail.com

Twitter: @poppy_northcutt

https://now.org/wp-content/poppy_northcutt.mp4  49 years after the passing of Roe-vs Wade.


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