During the 2001 Women of Color in Technology Conference, Jacqueline Mims was a panelist in a session on the evolution of technology.

Mims began her career at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center as an administrative assistant in NASA's co-op program while in high school. After earning a bachelor's degree in computer science at Towson University, she was rehired by NASA as an aerospace technologist, becoming Goddard's first and only black civil servant certified to command and control Small Explorer Spacecraft.

Click here to listen to Jacqueline Mims talk about her extraordinary career.

At NASA, she enabled the world to see graphical images of outer space; and later as a spacecraft controller of the Transition Region and Coronal Explorer (TRACE), a satellite devised to deepen understanding of our dynamic sun's activity. Mims’ last mission at NASA was on the Wide-Field Infrared Explorer (WIRE) which attempted to determine how stars are formed.