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Katherine Johnson is an American physicist, space scientist, and mathematician. She contributed to the aeronautics of the United States and its space programs with the early application of digital electronic computers at NASA. She calculated the trajectory for the Mercury Project and the flight of Apollo 11 to the Moon in 1969.

She began working at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)’s West Area Computing unit, a group of African American women. They manually performed complex mathematical calculations for the program’s engineers. The women, known as the West Computers, analyzed test data and provided mathematical computations that were essential to the success of the early U.S. space program.

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Katherine Johnson is an American physicist, space scientist, and mathematician who contributed to the aeronautics of the United States and its space programs with the early application of digital electronic computers at NASA. She calculated the trajectory for the Mercury Project and the flight of Apollo 11 to the Moon in 1969.

She began working at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)’s West Area Computing unit where a group of African American women who manually performed complex mathematical calculations for the program’s engineers worked. The women who were known as the West Computers, analyzed test data and provided mathematical computations that were essential to the success of the early U.S. space program.

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Dorothy Johnson Vaughan, who  worked for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), and NASA, at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, was an African American mathematician and human computer.  In 1949, she became acting supervisor of the West Area Computer, the first African-American woman to supervise a group of staff at the center.  She later was promoted officially to this position. During her 28-year career, Vaughan prepared for the introduction of machine computers in the early 1960s by teaching herself and her staff the programming language of FORTRAN which she later headed the programming section of the Analysis and Computation Division (ACD) at Langley.

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Mary Jackson was a mathematician and aerospace engineer at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). In 1958 she was succeeded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). She worked at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, for most of her career. She started as a computer at the segregated West Area Computing division. She took advanced engineering classes and in 1958 became NASA's first black female engineer.

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Mary Jackson was a mathematician and aerospace engineer at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), which in 1958 was succeeded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). She worked at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, for most of her career. She started as a computer at the segregated West Area Computing division. She took advanced engineering classes and in 1958 became NASA's first black female engineer.

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Dorothy Johnson Vaughan worked for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), and NASA, at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. She was an African American mathematician and human computer.  In 1949, she became acting supervisor of the West Area Computer, the first African-American woman to supervise a group of staff at the center.  She later was promoted officially to this position. During her 28-year career, Vaughan prepared for the introduction of machine computers in the early 1960s by teaching herself and her staff the programming language of FORTRAN. She later headed the programming section of the Analysis and Computation Division (ACD) at Langley.