Barbara Jaylee Montague Burley Mead (June 14, 1929 – September 14, 2012) was an American astronomer with a long career at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

She attended the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (then a women's college), earning a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1951.

[2][3] Jaylee Burley Mead worked at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center from its beginning in 1959 (she had employee badge number 0010).

[2] She also worked at the National Space Science Data Center, where she was assistant chief of the Laboratory for Astronomy and Solar Physics, associate chief of the Space Data and Computing Division, and coordinator of the International Ultraviolet Explorer's Regional Data-Analysis Facilities.

[9] Jaylee Mead served on the boards of the Carnegie Institution for Science and the National Children's Museum.