It is consistent with someone who was genuinely valued for her contributions.

The numbers also show a professional trajectory — from computational work in the early 1940s to licensed engineer in 1949 to co-author of a major technical handbook in the early 1960s — that describes not a career at the margins of aerospace but a career at its technical core.

Those numbers can be counted.

They tell a story that the classified gaps cannot obscure.

The Problem She Was Actually Solving