Overlooked No More: Annie Easley, Who Helped Take Spaceflight to New Heights
This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. On May 8, 1962, a powerful rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral in Florida. The liftoff was a test of NASA’s readiness for space exploration and a potentially groundbreaking moment in the…