After her NASA career, Poppy Northcutt became Houston's first women's advocate and later became a criminal defense attorney in the 1980s.
Sources
- Inside Apollo mission control, from the eyes of the first woman on the job (nationalgeographic.com)
- https://spacehistory101.com/downloads/interview-with-frances-poppy-northcutt-mission-control-pioneer/ (spacehistory101.com)
- https://houstonlanding.org/houston-womens-rights-advocate-hopes-supreme-court-reversal-will-restore-feminist-movement/ (houstonlanding.org)
- https://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/space/mission-moon/article/Blazing-a-trail-First-woman-at-Mission-Control-later-launched-career-as-activist-14055864.php (houstonchronicle.com)
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