Lesa Cline-Ransome
Publisher
Dreamscape Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
At one point, the word "computer" referred to the people who used their knowledge, pencils, adding machines and paper to calculate complex equations needed for space travel. As one of these mathematicians at NACA's Langley laboratory, Katherine Johnson's skills were in high demand and she was trusted by administrators and astronauts alike to be accurate and reliable.