She spent her career calculating the mathematics of flight beyond the atmosphere.

She died in the year that robots were exploring the surface of Mars.

The distance between those two things is the distance of one remarkable life, lived inside the most extraordinary century of human technological achievement, contributing to that achievement in ways that the record documents clearly enough to honor and honestly enough to trust.

That is her story, as accurately as it can be told.

And it is, on those terms, more than enough.