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Katherine Johnson: the Black Mathematician Who Calculated the Route to the Moon
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In 1969, when Apollo 11's astronauts landed on the Moon, the world celebrated an unprecedented technological feat. Behind the iconic images and American geopolitical power was a less publicized reality: the mission's success was based on equations of absolute precision. In 1962, for John Glenn's orbital mission aboard Friendship 7, NASA had for the first time programmed IBM electronic computers to calculate the complex trajectory. Distrustful of…
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