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My name’s Linda Posey and I started working
with NASA back in the dark ages in the 60’s.\h

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The first day I came to work I can remember
just being overwhelmed by how big Marshall

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Space Flight Center is.\h

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I ended up being a part of the management
support office providing program support to

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the Saturn V managers.\h

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Saturn V was still ongoing.\h

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At that point in time I went over to the Space
Shuttle Task Team for a couple of years in

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1970.\h

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I stayed in the Shuttle program then for the
rest of my career.

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The first Saturn V launch I witnessed and
the first Space Shuttle launch were probably

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the two most exciting moments of my career.\h

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Some people might ask you, “What type of
barriers have you been confronted with during

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your career at NASA?”\h

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I guess I’d say to them, “In the early
days there was the culture thing of the female

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barrier, but NASA quickly leaped forward to
resolve that as they have always done in those

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types of things.”

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These people that I looked up to so much,
primarily the Shuttle managers, they were

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a dream team.\h

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I believe those guys could have done anything.\h

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I didn’t really realize how lucky I was
until later years.\h