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'''Eleanor Crockett Pressly''' (lahir di Due West, [[Carolina Selatan]], [[Amerika Serikat]], [[1918]] – meninggal di [[Rockville, Maryland|Rockville]], [[Maryland]], Amerika Serikat, [[10 Mei]] [[2003]] pada umur 85 tahun) adalah seorang [[Matematikawan|matematikawati]] dan [[Teknik kedirgantaraan|insinyur kedirgantaraan]] berkebangsaan [[Orang Amerika Serikat|Amerika Serikat]] yang pernah bekerja pada program [[roket penelitian]] di [[Pusat Penerbangan Luar Angkasa Goddard|Pusat Penerbangan Antariksa Goddard Space]] milik [[Badan Penerbangan dan Antariksa Amerika Serikat|NASA]].<ref>Frances Leighton. [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/32486116/eleanor_pressly_1957/ Miss Rocketeer]. ''The Corpus Christi Caller-Times''. April 28, 1957. hlm. 87.</ref>

== Masa kecil ==
Eleanor Crockett Pressly lahir di Due West, [[Carolina Selatan]], [[Amerika Serikat]].<ref>Frances Leighton. [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/32486116/eleanor_pressly_1957/ Miss Rocketeer]. ''The Corpus Christi Caller-Times''. April 28, 1957. hlm. 87.</ref> Pressly merupakan anak tunggal dari Samuel Agnew Pressly dan Georgia Crockett Pressly.<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/32531177/eleanor_pressly_1931/ Dies as Result of Thyroid Operation]. ''Bluefield Daily Telegraph''. April 18, 1931. hlm. 5.</ref><ref>[https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85034357/1917-09-28/ed-1/seq-1.pdf Pressly-Crockett]. ''Clinch Valley News''. September 28, 1917. hlm. 1.</ref> Ia memperoleh gelar [[sarjana]] di Erskine College pada tahun 1938, dan gelar [[magister]] dalam bidang matematika di [[Universitas Duke]] pada tahun 1943.<ref>Pressly, Eleanor C. [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1962NASSP..13....1P "The Sounding Rocket as a Tool for College and University Research"] ''Geophysics and Astronomy in Space Exploration'' (December 1962): 1-6.</ref><ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/32551506/eleanor_c_pressly_1943/ Miss Pressly to Winthrop College]. ''The Index-Journal''. August 23, 1943. hlm. 2.</ref>
== Karier ==
Selama [[Perang Dunia II]], Pressly menjadi dosen matematika di korps angkatan udara di Winthrop College, dan bekerja di Laboratorium Penelitian Radio di [[Universitas Harvard]].<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/32551506/eleanor_c_pressly_1943/ Miss Pressly to Winthrop College]. ''The Index-Journal''. August 23, 1943. hlm. 2.</ref> Setelah perang, dia bekerja sebagai matematikawan dan insinyur kedigantaraan di [[United States Naval Research Laboratory|Laboratorium Penelitian Angkatan Laut Amerika Serikat]] <ref>Alicia Hart. [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/32486985/eleanor_c_pressly_1956/ Woman Plays Vital Research Role]. ''The Daily Inter Lake''. October 21, 1956. hlm. 20.</ref> dan merupakan anggota dari Komunitas Roket Amerika Serikat.<ref>Pressly, Eleanor C. [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1962NASSP..13....1P "The Sounding Rocket as a Tool for College and University Research"] ''Geophysics and Astronomy in Space Exploration'' (December 1962): 1-6.</ref> Pressly juga sempat menjadi pengawas peluncuran roket di White Sands Missile Range,<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/32533049/eleanor_c_pressly_1958/ Rocket Gets Feminine Touch]. ''The Honolulu Advertiser''. February 19, 1958. hlm. 2.</ref><ref>Don Cange. [http://www.wsmrhistoric.com/files/1958%20Wind%20and%20Sand%20V8%20Issue%2046.pdf Woman Heads Navy Project]. ''Wind & Sand''. February 21, 1958.</ref> dan Fort Churchill di [[Manitoba]], [[Kanada]].<ref>Alicia Hart. [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/32486985/eleanor_c_pressly_1956/ Woman Plays Vital Research Role]. ''The Daily Inter Lake''. October 21, 1956. hlm. 20.</ref>

Pressly segera dipindahkan ke [[Pusat Penerbangan Luar Angkasa Goddard]] setelah dibuka pada tahun 1958, dan menjadi Kepala Bagian Kendaraan Antariksa di Divisi Pesawat Penelitan Ruang Angkasa.<ref>Homer E. Newell. [https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.1741618 Counting with Geiger Counters]. ''Review of Scientific Instruments''. 1949-08-01. Vol. 20 (8). hlm. 568–572. doi:10.1063/1.1741618.</ref> Dia mengembangkan roket kecil Aerobee, ikut mengembangkan Aerobee-Hi 150, dan mengawasi desain Aerobee Hi 150 A, yang semuanya merupakan roket penelitan yang digunakan selama [[Tahun Geofisika Internasional]] periode 1957–1958.<ref>Jr Smith. [https://apps.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADB957191 Upper Atmosphere Research Report Number 21. Summary of Upper Atmosphere Rocket Research Firings]. Naval Research Laboratory. February 1954.</ref> James E. Webb menyebut Pressly sebagai salah satu wanita terpenting yang pernah bekerja di [[NASA]].<ref>John W. Townsend, Jr., Edith B. Meadows, Eleanor C. Pressly, "A Mass Spectrometric Study of the Upper Atmosphere", Rocket Exploration of the Upper Atmosphere, ed. by R. L. F. Boyd and M. Seaton, pp. 169·188, lnterscience Publishers, N.Y. (1954).</ref>

Pada tahun 1963, Pressly adalah salah satu dari enam penerima Penghargaan Wanita Federal, suatu penghargaan yang diberikan atas sumbangsih terpenting berupa ilmu pengetahuan terhadap negara.<ref>Homer E. Newell. [https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.1741618 Counting with Geiger Counters]. ''Review of Scientific Instruments''. 1949-08-01. Vol. 20 (8). hlm. 568–572. doi:10.1063/1.1741618.</ref> Pada tahun 1964, [[Lady Bird Johnson]] mengundang Pressly ke Gedung Putih lagi, untuk makan siang dan juga membicarakan tentang kontribusi para wanita dalam program luar angkasa.<ref>Jr Smith. [https://apps.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADB957191 Upper Atmosphere Research Report Number 21. Summary of Upper Atmosphere Rocket Research Firings]. Naval Research Laboratory. February 1954.</ref> Pada tahun 1966, Pressly mengisi seminar di Konferensi Balistik Roket Unguided di [[El Paso|El Paso, Texas]].<ref>John W. Townsend, Jr., Edith B. Meadows, Eleanor C. Pressly, "A Mass Spectrometric Study of the Upper Atmosphere", Rocket Exploration of the Upper Atmosphere, ed. by R. L. F. Boyd and M. Seaton, pp. 169·188, lnterscience Publishers, N.Y. (1954).</ref> Pada tahun 1981, Pressly memenangkan Penghargaan Mary Mildred Sullivan oleh Perhimpunan Alumni Erskine College.<ref>Homer E. Newell, Jr., Eleanor Pressly, and John W. Townsend, Jr., "Future Sounding Rockets", Sounding Rockets, Chapter 17, ed. by H. E. Newell, Jr., McGraw-Hill Book Co., N.Y. (1958).</ref>

== Akhir hayat ==
Pressly meninggal di [[Rockville, Maryland]], pada 2003, di usia 84 tahun, yang diumumkan oleh sepupu yang tinggal bersamanya.<ref>[https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/washingtonpost/obituary.aspx?n=eleanor-c-pressly&pid=1006162 Eleanor C. Pressly]. ''The Washington Post''. May 12, 2003.</ref>

== Karya terkenal ==
Berikut ini adalah daftar karya-karya terkenal oleh Pressly:<ref>Amy McDonald. [https://blogs.library.duke.edu/rubenstein/2019/07/12/pressly/ Eleanor C. Pressly: A Duke Alumna at NASA]. ''The Devil's Tale''. 2019-07-12.</ref>

* ''Counting with Geiger Counters'' (Review of Scientific Instruments, 1949, bersama Homer E. Newell)<ref>Homer E. Newell. [https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.1741618 Counting with Geiger Counters]. ''Review of Scientific Instruments''. 1949-08-01. Vol. 20 (8). hlm. 568–572. doi:10.1063/1.1741618.</ref>
* ''Upper Atmosphere Research Report Number 21. Summary of Upper Atmosphere Rocket Research Firings'' ([[United States Naval Research Laboratory|Naval Research Laboratory]], Februari 1954, bersama Charles P. Smith Jr.)<ref>Jr Smith. [https://apps.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADB957191 Upper Atmosphere Research Report Number 21. Summary of Upper Atmosphere Rocket Research Firings]. Naval Research Laboratory. February 1954.</ref>
* ''A Mass Spectrometric Study of the Upper Atmosphere'' (1954, bersama John W. Townsend Jr. dan Edith B. Meadows)<ref>John W. Townsend, Jr., Edith B. Meadows, Eleanor C. Pressly, "A Mass Spectrometric Study of the Upper Atmosphere", Rocket Exploration of the Upper Atmosphere, ed. by R. L. F. Boyd and M. Seaton, pp. 169·188, lnterscience Publishers, N.Y. (1954).</ref>
* ''Future Sounding Rocket'' (1958, dengan Newell dan Townsend)<ref>Homer E. Newell, Jr., Eleanor Pressly, and John W. Townsend, Jr., "Future Sounding Rockets", Sounding Rockets, Chapter 17, ed. by H. E. Newell, Jr., McGraw-Hill Book Co., N.Y. (1958).</ref>
* ''The Aerobee Rocket'' (1958, dengan Townsend dan [[James Alfred Van Allen|James Van Allen]])<ref>James A. Van Allen, John W. Townsend, Jr., and Eleanor C. Pressly, "The Aerobee Rocket", Sounding Rockets, Chapter 4, ed. by H. E. Newell, Jr., McGraw-Hill Book Co., N.Y. (1958).</ref>
* ''The Sounding Rocket as a Tool for College and University Research'' ([[Badan Penerbangan dan Antariksa Amerika Serikat|NASA]], Desember 1962).<ref>Pressly, Eleanor C. [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1962NASSP..13....1P "The Sounding Rocket as a Tool for College and University Research"] ''Geophysics and Astronomy in Space Exploration'' (December 1962): 1-6.</ref>

== Pranala luar ==
* [http://worldcat.org/identities/np-pressly,%20eleanor%20c/ Eleanor C. Pressly]  di [[WorldCat]] .
* Alfred Rosenthal, ''[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/Venture_Into_Space-_Early_Years_of_Goddard_Space_Flight_Center_%28NASA_SP-4301%29.pdf Venture into Space: Early Years of Goddard Space Flight Center]'' (NASA 1968).

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