CSPAN2 Open Phones With Nathalia Holt March 12, 2017
For calculating the trajectory of the satellite as it left earth. So she is sitting there in the middle of the night on january 31, 1958 with a room full of men and they are all over her shoulder to find out if this mission will be a success. And it is her math done by hand with paper and pencil that lets us know explorer one has made it, america has its first satellite. That was one of the first story she told me. And it was so exciting, so thrilling to be able to hear firsthand what that was like. There are not very many people left that can tell us about these nasa missions, what it was lik...