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Woman Welder Carries Torch For Industry
Hap Brennecke is a welding engineer at the Mar Shal Space Flight Center in Huntsville Alabama a rare woman in a space age field She earned a chemistry degree from Ohio State in 1934 and moved through metallurgy during WWII Then at the space center she works on aluminum alloy development and LST ramps She notes mixed acceptance but advises young women to pursue what they enjoy and says sewing is engineering in its own right
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Huntsville
Ala
Hap Brennecke
Mar Shal Space Flight Center
Llap
Margaret Brennecke
Ohio State University
LST
University of Pittsburgh
Carnegie Institute of Technology
Space Center