Program gets women coding with NASA data

Tracey Birch, a woman with 25 years of experience in software development and system administration, had never seen so many women in tech in one room.

Last week she was named as one of 49 NASA Datanauts ? just five of whom are men ? for the 2016 program, which aims to give more women with varying programming experience opportunities to use NASA data and code with it.

By Samantha Ehlinger

Program gets women coding with NASA data