During the Apollo 13 emergency, Poppy Northcutt's team worked in a private room down the hall from the televised mission control room to troubleshoot the return-to-Earth program.
Notes on verification
Multiple independent sources (National Geographic, Time, PBS, Yahoo, and a history blog) corroborate that Poppy Northcutt worked in a staff support room adjacent to mission control and troubleshot the return-to-Earth program during Apollo 13.
Sources
- Inside Apollo mission control, from the eyes of the first woman on the job (nationalgeographic.com)
- https://finance.yahoo.com/news/meet-poppy-northcutt-woman-helped-234619415.html (finance.yahoo.com)
- https://time.com/collections/apollo-11-50/5614162/apollo-11-anniversary-first-woman/ (time.com)
- https://texashistory365.substack.com/p/poppy-northcutt-the-woman-who-broke (texashistory365.substack.com)
- https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/chasing-moon-poppy-northcutt-return-earth-specialist (pbs.org)