Talk:Ivy Hooks

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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:49, 21 October 2020 (UTC)

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Ivy Hooks

• ... that Ivy Hooks (pictured) received an award for her work on the design of the Space Shuttle? Source: [1]
  • ALT1:... that Ivy Hooks (pictured) was one of only two women assigned to the original design team for the Space Shuttle Orbiter? Source: "In April 1969, just a few months shy of the first lunar landing, she became a member of the original design team for the Space Shuttle Orbiter. One of only two female engineers assigned to the group" ([2])

• Comment Image is a cropped version of the one in the article.
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Issy Wong

Created by Hawkeye7 (talk). Self-nominated at 03:51, 5 October 2020 (UTC).

• Article is new and long enough, article is properly cited, no copyvio concerns (Earwig reports quotations or proper names that cannot be worded any other way), image is from NASA and hence has a compatible licence, hook is cited to the NASA source given and confirms her receipt of a Flemming Award. Ritchie333 ^{(talk) (cont)} 12:54, 5 October 2020 (UTC)
  • @Hawkeye7: why is this hooky? It doesn't even link the award. Yoninah (talk) 20:00, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

    I didn't think the award would mean much to most people. The hooky part is that a woman was involved in the design of the Space Shuttle. In 1978 there were only five or six women working in technical positions at JSC, two of them on the Space Shuttle, out of a workforce about 4,000; the hiring of six women as astronauts that year doubled the number. I've supplied an ALT1; see if you like that better. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:29, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

• @Hawkeye7: yes, that certainly works better with an image slot, thanks. Pinging @Ritchie333: to review ALT1. Yoninah (talk) 20:36, 13 October 2020 (UTC)