Which female mathematician led the team of human 'computers' at NASA who calculated trajectories for John Glenn's 1962 orbital flight?
Long before electronic computers were trusted with critical calculations, NASA relied on a group of mathematicians known as 'human computers'. Their work was essential to the early American space programme.
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