While Melba Mouton was not one of the “hidden figures” unveiled and featured for their success at NASA during the late 1950s and 1960s, her story is no different.

Melba Mouton worked during the era of "Hidden Figures" at NASA. The newly named Mons Mouton overlooks an area that will also be targeted by an ice-hunting rover in 2024 or so.

The very first moon landing, Apollo 11 in 1969 was a success in large part to a trailblazing mathematician named Melba Roy Mouton. Thursday, NASA announced a moon mountain will be named in her honor.

"Melba Mouton was one of our pioneering leaders at NASA,” said Sandra Connelly, the acting associate administrator for science at NASA Headquarters in Washington in a press .

Mons Mouton, a mountain near the moon's south pole, has been officially named after Melba Roy Mouton, a pioneering NASA computer programmer and mathematician in the 1960s and '70s.

Scientists named a lunar mountain near the satellite’s South Pole Mons Mouton. Mons was selected because that’s what mountains on the moon are called, and Mouton honors Melba Roy Mouton.

The landing site is on a flat top mountain near the lunar south pole called Mons Mouton, a feature named for the Black mathematician Melba Mouton. This is Intuitive Machines' second attempt to ...

While Melba Mouton was not one of the “hidden figures” unveiled and featured for their success at NASA during the late 1950s and 1960s, her story is no different.

"Melba Mouton was one of our pioneering leaders at NASA,” said Sandra Connelly, the acting associate administrator for science at NASA Headquarters in Washington in a press .

Mouton is a highly respected role model for all women and people of color pursuing a career in STEM.