Project Gutenberg on Nostr: "I wanted in the work that I was doing with NASA, I wanted to be able to do something ...

"I wanted in the work that I was doing with NASA, I wanted to be able to do something to make life a little better for the next generation."

As a computer, Katherine Johnson calculated the trajectory for Alan Shepard, the first American in space...John Glenn requested that she personally recheck the calculations...before his flight aboard Friendship 7...on which he became the first American to orbit the Earth.

https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/langley/katherine-johnson-biography/

~Katherine Johnson (August 26, 1918 – February 24, 2020)