Scissum started teaching at 

Councill Training School, Huntsville's only black high school. Here

she very quickly realised that teaching was not for her as she worried about the students a lot.
[4]
 Scissum joined NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center as an entry level mathematician in
1964 after a recommendation from a friend and was the first African-American mathematician
to be employed by Marshall.[5] She published a NASA report in 1967, “Survey of Solar Cycle
Prediction Models,” which put forward techniques for improved forecasting of the sunspot
cycle.[6] In the mid-1970s she worked as a space scientist in the Space Environment Branch of
Marshall's Space Sciences Laboratory and she led activities in Marshall's Atmospheric,
Magnetospheric, and Plasmas in Space project.[2] Following the completion of her PhD, she
later moved to Maryland to work in Goddard Space Flight Center as a computer systems
analyst responsible for analyzing and directing NASA management information and technical
support systems.[7] She retired in 2005.[3]
Scissum's accomplishments have earned her recognition by Mathematically Gifted & Black as
a Black History Month 2018 Honoree
Scissum started teaching at Councill Training School, Huntsville's only black high school. Here
she very quickly realised that teaching was not for her as she worried about the students a lot.
[4]
 Scissum joined NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center as an entry level mathematician in
1964 after a recommendation from a friend and was the first African-American mathematician
to be employed by Marshall.[5] She published a NASA report in 1967, “Survey of Solar Cycle
Prediction Models,” which put forward techniques for improved forecasting of the sunspot
cycle.[6] In the mid-1970s she worked as a space scientist in the Space Environment Branch of
Marshall's Space Sciences Laboratory and she led activities in Marshall's Atmospheric,
Magnetospheric, and Plasmas in Space project.[2] Following the completion of her PhD, she
later moved to Maryland to work in Goddard Space Flight Center as a computer systems
analyst responsible for analyzing and directing NASA management information and technical
support systems.[7] She retired in 2005.[3]
Scissum's accomplishments have earned her recognition by Mathematically Gifted & Black as
a Black History Month 2018 Honoree
Scissum started teaching at Councill Training School, Huntsville's only black high school. Here
she very quickly realised that teaching was not for her as she worried about the students a lot.
[4]
 Scissum joined NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center as an entry level mathematician in
1964 after a recommendation from a friend and was the first African-American mathematician
to be employed by Marshall.[5] She published a NASA report in 1967, “Survey of Solar Cycle
Prediction Models,” which put forward techniques for improved forecasting of the sunspot
cycle.[6] In the mid-1970s she worked as a space scientist in the Space Environment Branch of
Marshall's Space Sciences Laboratory and she led activities in Marshall's Atmospheric,
Magnetospheric, and Plasmas in Space project.[2] Following the completion of her PhD, she
later moved to Maryland to work in Goddard Space Flight Center as a computer systems
analyst responsible for analyzing and directing NASA management information and technical
support systems.[7] She retired in 2005.[3]
Scissum's accomplishments have earned her recognition by Mathematically Gifted & Black as
a Black History Month 2018 Honoree
Scissum started teaching at Councill Training School, Huntsville's only black high school. Here
she very quickly realised that teaching was not for her as she worried about the students a lot.
[4]
 Scissum joined NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center as an entry level mathematician in
1964 after a recommendation from a friend and was the first African-American mathematician
to be employed by Marshall.[5] She published a NASA report in 1967, “Survey of Solar Cycle
Prediction Models,” which put forward techniques for improved forecasting of the sunspot
cycle.[6] In the mid-1970s she worked as a space scientist in the Space Environment Branch of
Marshall's Space Sciences Laboratory and she led activities in Marshall's Atmospheric,
Magnetospheric, and Plasmas in Space project.[2] Following the completion of her PhD, she
later moved to Maryland to work in Goddard Space Flight Center as a computer systems
analyst responsible for analyzing and directing NASA management information and technical
support systems.[7] She retired in 2005.[3]
Scissum's accomplishments have earned her recognition by Mathematically Gifted & Black as
a Black History Month 2018 Honoree