Katherine Johnson, who hand-crunched the numbers for America’s first manned space flight, is 100 today |
Cable News Network (CNN)
2018-08-26
Saeed Ahmed, Senior Editor, Trends, CNN Digital
Emanuella Grinberg, Digital news reporter
Katherine Johnson worked in the “Computer Pool” at NASA.
(CNN)—Katherine Johnson, the woman who hand-calculated the trajectory for America’s first trip to space, turns 100 today.
Before the arrival of electronic data processors, aka, computers in the 1960s, humans — mainly women — comprised the workforce at NASA known as the “Computer Pool.”
Black women, especially, played a crucial role in the pool, providing mathematical data for NASA’s first successful space missions, including Alan Shepherd’s 1961 mission and John Glenn’s pioneering orbital spaceflight…
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