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John Glenn apparently refused to fly based on the number of the computers unless Katherine Johnson checked them first.
by 19870213 7y ago
John Glenn apparently refused to fly based on the number of the computers unless Katherine Johnson checked them first.
- divbzero 7y agoThis was dramatized in Hidden Figures but apparently based on fact: [1] > As a computer, she calculated the trajectory for Alan Shepard, the first American in space. Even after NASA began using electronic computers, John Glenn requested that she personally recheck the calculations made by the new electronic computers before his flight aboard Friendship 7 – the mission on which he became the first American to orbit the Earth. [1]: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/katherine-johnson-the-girl-who-loved-to-count https://www.nasa.gov/feature/katherine-johnson-the-girl-who-...