Judith Love Cohen worked in the aerospace industry from 1952 to 1990, including working on the guidance system for the Minuteman missile and then the Abort-Guidance System in the Apollo Lunar Module. The AGS played a key role in the safe return of Apollo 13 after an oxygen tank explosion damaged the service module and forced the astronauts to use the lunar module as a “lifeboat.” Power and water supplies on the LM were limited, and the primary guidance and navigation system used excessive water for cooling. After the LM’s descent engine burned two hours after the lunar flyby to shorten the journey home, the AGS was used for most of the return, including two mid-course corrections. On August 28, 1969, shortly after the Apollo 11 mission, Judith Love Cohen gave birth. Her son (the fourth) was named Jack Black. That Jack Black…
