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Barbara “Bobbie” Crawford Johnson, the first woman to graduate with a degree in General Engineering from UIUC in 1946, worked on Apollo missions at North American Aviation, later Rockwell International. NASA honored her in 1973, and UIUC named her a Distinguished Alumni in 1975, the first woman to receive this award. She also won the Dick Brouwer Award in 1978 for her contributions to space flight mechanics and astrodynamics.