NASA’s ‘human computer’: Meet the woman who calculated the future of spaceflight without machines

Annie Easley began as a ‘human computer’, performing complex calculations by hand before electronic systems took over. She later became a programmer at NASA, contributing to propulsion and energy ...
KXAN

Honoring Black History: NASA’s Human Computer

WACO, Texas (FOX 44) – As Artemis II prepares to carry astronauts around the moon using flight computers capable of billions of calculations per second … software that adjusts a spacecraft’s path ...
The Gazette

NASA’s ’Human computer’ turns 100 Katherine Johnson: ‘I’m just lucky’

The former 'human computer” at NASA Langley Research Center - whose intricate, done-by-hand calculations sent men into space and brought them back safely - turned 100 on Aug. 26. West Virginia State ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Before Computers Were Machines, They Were Women. Here Are Six Places Where Human Computers Built Modern Science

From AT&T to NASA, women working as computers performed the calculations that made modern science possible. In the early 1900s, computing joined teaching and nursing as one of the few careers open to ...