Long before laptops or calculators were anywhere near NASA's offices, there was a woman doing the math by hand who decided whether astronauts would actually make it to space and back alive. Katherine ...
From AT&T to NASA, women working as computers performed the calculations that made modern science possible. In the early 1900s, computing joined teaching and nursing as one of the few careers open to ...
NASA has named a new research facility after pioneer Katherine Johnson, the trailblazing 99-year-old human computer whose incredible work as a NASA mathematician inspired the book and movie, "Hidden ...
Christine Darden, one of the 'human computers” who followed in Johnson's footsteps at NASA Langley, is a frequent visitor and bridge partner at the retirement community in Newport News where Johnson ...
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NASA scientists working on calculations in the 1960s
Before computers, NASA relied on “human computers” — mathematicians who solved complex equations for flight paths and spacecraft design by hand with slide rules, graph paper, and adding machines.
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