One of her most famous missions was leading an all-female expedition inside the Tektite Habitat, an underwater laboratory, during a time when women were often excluded from similar opportunities.

he worked on the Tektite I mission, in which four U.S. Department of Interior scientists set what was then the saturated diving record of nearly 60 days in a federally funded underwater habitat in ...

he worked on the Tektite I mission, in which four U.S. Department of Interior scientists set what was then the saturated diving record of nearly 60 days in a federally funded underwater habitat in ...

The U.S. Navy had a similar program of undersea habitats in the mid-late 1960’s named Sealab, and, in 1970, the Tektite habitat hosted the first all-female aquanaut team. In 1993, the Aquarius ...