Statue honors first female Native American aerospace engineer
New statue honors Mary Golda Ross, a Native American ‘hidden figure’
Mary Golda Ross is honored with a statue at the First Americans Museum in Oklahoma City. She was born in 1908 as a citizen of the Cherokee Nation and is considered the first female Native American engineer and first female engineer at Lockheed, which she joined in 1942. She made numerous contributions to the US aerospace industry including designs for interplanetary space travel and flyby missions to Mars and Venus. Olay, the skin care company that supports women in STEM and the sponsor of the statue, worked with the National Air and Space Museum to make sure of the accuracy of the statue. Mary Golda Ross lived for 99 years and was the subject of the Google Doodle on her 110th birthday on 9 August 2018.
