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She died on November 10th, 2008.

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Dorothy Vaughan worked for NASA from 1943 to 1971.

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In 1958, NACA became the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. She joined the new Analysis and Computation Division, and became an expert FORTRAN programmer.

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She never received another management position at NASA. She retired in 1971. During the last 10 years of her career, Vaughan worked with fellow NASA mathematicians Katherine G. Johnson and Mary Jackson on the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit.

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The Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory in 1930

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The Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory in 1930

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This is where the Human Computers would have worked in Langley, WV.

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She was employed as a mathematician at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, (an early version of NASA). Dorothy Vaughan was among the first group of African Americans to be hired as mathematicians and scientists. She was assigned to the segregated “West Area Computing” unit, where she was required to use separate dining and restrooms. In 1949, she became the first Black supervisor at NACA when she was promoted to manager of the West Area Computers.

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Handbook for the Computer She Helped Program

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Handbook for the Computer She Helped Program

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She helped code the IBM 7090 that NASA later used to send people into space.

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After graduating, she attended Wilberforce University in Ohio. There, she received a Bachelor of Science degree.

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Dorothy Vaughan was a math teacher at Robert Russa Moton High School in Farmville, VA. Then she left to join the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory.

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On September 20th, 1910, she was born in Kansas City, MO. When she was 7, her parents moved her family to Morgantown, WV. In 1925, she graduated from Beechurst High School.