Judith Love Cohen

Judith Love Cohen
A woman standing near a satellite
Cohen and the Atlas / Able satellite on which she worked in 1959
Born(1933-08-16)August 16, 1933
DiedJuly 25, 2016(2016-07-25) (aged 82)
Culver City, California, U.S.
Burial placeEden Memorial Park Cemetery
Other namesJudith Love Siegel
Judith Love Black
Judith Love Katz
Occupation(s)Aerospace engineer
Author
Years active1952–2016
Spouses
  • Bernard Siegel
  • Tom Black
  • David A. Katz
Children4, including Neil Siegel and Jack Black

Judith Love Cohen (August 16, 1933 – July 25, 2016)[1] was an American aerospace engineer. She was an electrical engineer on the Minuteman missile, the science ground station for the Hubble Space Telescope, the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, and the Apollo Space Program.[2] In particular, her work on the Abort-Guidance System is credited with helping save Apollo 13. After her retirement from engineering, she founded a children's multimedia publishing company,[3] eventually publishing more than 20 titles before her death in 2016. She was the mother of computer scientist and engineer Neil Siegel and actor-musician Jack Black.

  1. ^ "Judith Cohen". Los Angeles Times. July 28, 2016. Retrieved April 25, 2021 – via Legacy.com.
  2. ^ Friend, Robyn (2006). The Women of Apollo. Cascade Pass, Inc. ISBN 1-880599-79-1.
  3. ^ Siegel, Neil (July 29, 2016). "In Memory of Judith Love Cohen: Mother, Wife, Friend, Author, Engineer". USC – Viterbi School of Engineering.

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