MSNBC The Week With Joshua Johnson June 4, 2024 04:51:00
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 national headquarters hidden figures way, and rightly so. every digit and decimal meant the difference between making history and causing tragedy. and last summer nasa renamed its headquarters after mary w. jackson, its first black female engineer. junel monet played her in the movie. these ar...
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