This 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

This 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-...