would then be called Bagel and Lox. However, this name was rejected by the U.S. Army. Death and tribute Morgan died of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) emphysema on August 4, 2004 at 82 years old, despite having quit her heavy smoking habit for Lent 29 years earlier. In July 2013, the BBC's online news magazine released a short video tribute to Morgan, narrated by her son, George. Morgan was the subject of a semi-biographical stage play written by her son, George. The play, Rocket Girl, was produced by Theater Arts at California Institute of Technology (TACIT), directed by Brian Brophy, and was performed at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, California on November 17, 2008. Her son admitted that he knew surprisingly little about his mother's life and work when she died, as she worked in an industry connected to defense and national security, and was limited in what she could discuss. He had built and launched homemade rockets with friends in the Arizona desert, and as he recalled, "If I'd known how much expertise in rocketry my mother had, we could have asked her for help and saved ourselves a great deal of trouble." The play was later turned into a book by the same name. References External links "'Rocket Girl' Celebrates Smash World Premiere at Caltech in Pasadena" TACIT (Theater Arts at CIT) Rocket scientists 1921 births 2004 deaths Women rocket scientists Women inventors Minot State University alumni People from Williams County, North Dakota Scientists from North Dakota 20th-century American women scientists 20th-century American chemists 21st-century American women