Lot 1754

A black and white portrait photograph of Linda A. Morabito on Kodak paper, inscribed to the top right 'To/Rudolf Spoor/ Linda A. Morabito'and dated '2/3/81' -25,5 x 20 cm-, together with a colour photograph of flight controllers in the Johnson Space Center, 'NASA, S23-9100, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, 77058' in red to the left margin. Linda A. Morabito (born November 21, 1953), also known as Linda Hyder, is the astronomer who discovered volcanic activity on Io, a moon of Jupiter. She made this finding on March 9, 1979, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. At the time of her discovery, she was serving as Cognizant Engineer over the Optical Navigation Image Processing System (ONIPS) on the Voyager deep space mission Navigation Team.