Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson
NACA Human Computer
Worked at NACA and NASA with tracking teams of manned and unmanned orbital missions. Notable calculations included trajectory for Alan Shepard‘s 1959 flight; Verification calculations made for John Glenn's 1962 orbit; and calculations for the 1969 Apollo 11 trajectory to the Moon.
NASA Cultural Resources (CRGIS)
A class in mathematical geography studying earth's rotation around the sun, Hampton Institute, Hampton, Virginia
Hampton Institute, Education of Black Teachers, Post-Civil War
Library of Congress
Ca 1890-1900
Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).
Mary Winston Jackson, 1921-2005
NASA Human Computers
Mary Winston Jackson worked as a mathematician, called human computer, at NACA and later NASA from 1950-1985.
NASA
Excerpt from American Missionary
History of Hampton
Map, Chesterville Plantation
Survey map of Chesterville Plantation in Virginia, 1951
Survey map of Chesterville Plantation in Virginia, 1951.
NASA Cultural Resources
<a title="NASA Cultural Resources" href="http://crgis.ndc.nasa.gov/" target="_blank">NASA Cultural Resources</a>, <a title="NASA Cultural Resources, Chesterville Plantation" href="http://crgis.ndc.nasa.gov/historic/Chesterville_Plantation_Site" target="_blank">Chesterville Plantation</a>
NASA Cultural Resources
1951
Used with permission from <a title="NASA Cultural Resources" href="http://crgis.ndc.nasa.gov/" target="_blank">NASA Cultural Resources</a>
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English
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