She was born in 1908, the year in which powered flight was still a novelty.

She died in 2008, the year in which the International Space Station had been continuously inhabited for eight years and in which the Mars Rovers Spirit and Opportunity were operating on the surface of another planet.

The span of that life, measured in what human technology had become during it, is staggering.

She did not just witness the transformation.

She contributed to it.

The Postage Stamp That Arrived Fourteen Years After Her Death