Did you notice something unusual in the title? 'Miss Guided Missile'? Mis-Guided Missile? Yes, I sense a pun.
Anyway, jokes apart. NASA which was founded July 29, 1958, hosted a beauty contest for Jet Propulsion Laboratory's (JPL) female employees.
Read on to enlighten yourself.
2. NASA never had an agency-wide pageant for women from all centers, the Lewis Space Center in Ohio, nonetheless crowned one "Miss NASA" each year between 1968 and 1973
1. NASA introduced a beauty contest for Jet Propulsion Laboratory's (JPL) female employees.
3. Alane Hine, Miss Guided Missile 1955 was...
crowned by JPL's longest-serving director cum rocket scientist Walter Pickering.
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4. The title 'Miss Guided Missile' was then changed to 'Queen of Outer Space'.
Here, name unknown is the winner of the 1959 "Queen of Outer Space".
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5. However, the contest was discontinued in the 1970s.
6. Miss NASA 1973, Merri Fahnenbruck was the last known Miss Guided Missile or Queen of Outer Space winner of the Apollo era.
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