In 1970, Irmagard Flugge-Lotz, was awarded the Society of Women Engineers' annual achievement award for her contributions to the field of fluid mechanics, in particular, wing theory and boundary layer theory.
	The Association for Women in Science was established in 1971 to achieve equity and full participation for women in science, mathematics, engineering, and technology. Today, there are over 5,000 members, 50 percent of whom have doctoral degrees.
	In 1972, 17 percent of the aerospace workforce was women.
	In 1973, Emily Holton, PhD., became the only biologist at NASA Wallops and is currently working at NASA Ames researching the importance of gravity on skeletal growth and development. http://www.quest.arc.nasa.gov/women/bios/eh.html
	In 1973, Emily Howell became the first female pilot to fly for a commercial U.S. airline, Frontier Airlines.
	In 1974, the U.S. Navy selected its first non-combatant female pilots and, in the same year, the U.S. Army trained its first female pilot, Lt. Sally Murphy.
	In 1974, Barbara Crawford Johnson was awarded the Society of Women Engineers' annual award for her work assuring the Apollo spacecraft made pinpoint landings.
	In 1974, Mary Helen Johnston, Ann Whitaker, Carolyn Griner, and Doris Chandler comprised an all-women science team for various experiments at NASA Marshall. In the late 1990s, Carolyn Griner served as acting center director at NASA Marshall.
	In 1974, Christine Jones earned her Ph.D. from Harvard and she, and her husband, Bill Forman, are known for discovering that elliptical galaxies have large amounts of hot gas that are remnants of the formation of galaxies. This earned them the American Astronomical Society's 1985 award. http://cannon.sfsu.edu/~gmarcy/cswa/history/jones.html
	Frances E. Scott started her career as a secretary at NASA Marshall and went on to earn a B.S. in biology. Later, she became a specialist in sterilization methods for planetary quarantine and an investigator for blood cell experiments conducted during the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in 1975.
	In 1975, Sheila E. Widnall, Ph.D., was awarded the Society of Women Engineers' annual award for her contributions in fluid mechanics of low speed aircraft and hydrofoils. She also conceived and implemented Massachusetts Institute of Technology's wind tunnel. http://www.wic.org/bio/swidnall.htm
	In 1976, women are admitted to military academies.
	In 1977, the Air Force selected the first group of females for pilot training.
	In September 1942, the Army Air Force (AAF) created the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS) and appointed Nancy H. Love its commander. Love recruited highly skilled and experienced female pilots who were sent on non-combat missions ferrying planes between factories and AAF installations. While WAFS was being organized, the Army and Air Force appointed Jacqueline Cochran as director of the Women's Flying Training school where over a thousand women completed flight training. As the ranks of women pilots serving the AAF swelled, the value of their contribution began to be recognized, and the Air Force took steps to militarize them. The Air Force renamed the unit the Women Airforce Service Pilots. These women served grueling, often dangerous, tours of duty. Ferrying and towing were risky activities, and some pilots suffered injuries and were killed in the course of duty. In 1977, after much lobbying of Congress, the WASP finally achieved military active duty status for their service. http://www.nara.gov/exhall/people/wafs2.gif http://www.nara.gov/exhall/powers/women.html http://www.nara.gov/exhall/people/women.html
	In 1978, women were chosen as astronaut candidates for the first time. All held doctoral degrees. Their expertise included medicine, geology, electrical engineering, physics, chemistry, and biochemistry. Rhea Seddon, M.D., Kathryn D. Sullivan, Ph.D., Judith A. Resnick, Ph.D., Sally K. Ride, Ph.D., Anna L. Fisher, M.D., and Shannon W. Lucid, Ph.D.
	The 1978 Inventor of the Year was Barbara S. Askins, a chemist at NASA Marshall.
	"Fortune Magazine" recognized Olive Ann Beech as one of the "Ten Highest Ranking Women in Big Business." She co-founded Beech Aircraft in the 1930s.

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