• NASA's Human Computers

  • Sep 19 2016
  • Length: 20 mins
  • Podcast

  • Summary

  • During World War II, a labor shortage obliged the military to hire African American women with mathematical skills to help make complicated computations for warplane designs. This small team of black women faced discrimination but eventually would help NASA astronauts land on the moon. One woman whose grandmother was a "computer" helps tell the story.
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