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Into space. born in 1918 and showed early froms in math but had to attend a special high school because they only taught until the eighth grade. she graduated at 14. graduated college at 18 and eventually she worked for nasa where she made pioneering calculations and was nicknamed the human computer. her work led to the success of the apollo moon landing program and space shuttle program. she received a medal of honor from president obama in 2015. today she's 99 years old. >> looking for somebody to build a monument to, for, that's your lady. from the first moment you met it was love at first ...

Approachable, so genuine. people felt as though he could sit down in their parlor for a chat and be right at home. or like steve lindsay says, that he would be a great neighbor. john glenn was deeply compassionate. he valued everyone, no matter his race or gender. he was ahead of his time in many ways. it was he who personally requested that catherine johnson, a black woman from west virginia, from white sulfur springs, west virginia, working as a human computer at the langley research center, he requested that catherine johnson do the verifying of the calculations for his historic flight as a...

It is election eve. and who better to go through the latest numbers than msnbc host and political correspondent steve kornacki who i just messed with beyond belief. i walked over to the board and destroyed it, but luckily, this guy is a human computer. >> we should turn it off so we don't confuse people. we have states kind of miss the sign. but the bottom line. here we go, the 43 color nbc battleground map. i don't know if this will make sense, but the bottom line in terms of what donald trump is trying to do is some of the states that we have been thinking of as the battleground states in th...

weaker but what they really need is for it to move a little faster. it is just sitting there over parts of the gulf coast right now, already causing flooding and it doesn't seem to be going anywhere anytime soon. also, listen to this, buy a raffle ticket and you could win a glock handgun. it's part of a republican fund-raiser in tucson, arizona. the same city where a gunman using a glock handgun killed six people and shot congresswoman gabrielle giffords in the head. critics are calling this extremely insensitive but arizona republicans are defending the fund-raiser. also this mo...