MSNBC The Week With Joshua Johnson June 4, 2024 01:51:00
There was probably no way for him to know that behind these whiteys on the moon were a lot of black women. many of us learned of them through the 2017 movie "hidden figures." before a computer was an object in your pocket, it was a job description, a human being who did exhausting mathematical calculations on paper. nasa employed human computers to help with the early space program before machines did all the math. back in 2019, nasa renamed the street in front of its washington headquarters hidden figures way. and rightly so. every digit and decimal meant the difference between making history...
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