and Townsend) "The Aerobee Rocket" (1958, with Townsend and James Van Allen), and "The Sounding Rocket as a Tool for College and University Research" (NASA, December 1962). Personal life Pressly died in Rockville, Maryland, in 2003, aged 84 years. Her only noted survivor was a cousin. References External links Eleanor C. Pressly on WorldCat. Alfred Rosenthal, Venture into Space: Early Years of Goddard Space Flight Center (NASA 1968). 1918 births 2003 deaths Erskine College alumni Duke University alumni 20th-century American mathematicians Aeronautical engineers Goddard Space Flight Center people People from Abbeville County, South Carolina American women mathematicians 20th-century American engineers American women engineers Mathematicians from South Carolina Engineers from South Carolina 20th-century American women 21st-century American women