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Last Updated: Adrian Cadiz / Air Force Space Command Public Affairs We owe a number of humanity’s great scientific, mathematical, and technological developments to women even if they often aren’t given the credit they’ve earned. Here are just five of those women. Gladys West Gladys West is the mathematician you have to thank for not getting lost on your next road trip. Her work on Seasat, an experimental U.S. ocean surveillance satellite designed to provide data on a wide array of oceanographic conditions and features, led to a more well-known technology: the Global Positioning System (GPS). Like the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) mathematicians Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson, West is often called one of history’s “hidden figures”: individuals, often Black women, whose insightful contributions to science went unrecognized in their lifetime because of their race or gender. West wasn’t formally recognized for her

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