The Flight Research Division, where Katherine works, and the Pilotless Aircraft Research Division (PARD) take the lead in developing Langley’s space engineering expertise. The engineers prepare lectures to give one another, on topics like rocket propulsion, the physics of orbit, and the problems of atmospheric reentry. They begin producing written reports. Every report must undergo editorial review by a committee looking for flaws. Katherine wants to attend the editorial meetings and ask questions, just like her male colleagues. “Girls don’t go to the meetings,” she is told—not Black women, and not white women, either. And yet a white woman, Dorothy Lee, is a PARD engineer and is even starting to earn authorship credit on some reports. Katherine persists and finally, in 1958, starts attending editorial meetings in the Guidance and Control Branch of the Flight Research Division.