20 min listen
NASA's Human Computers
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Length:
20 minutes
Released:
Sep 19, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
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.
Released:
Sep 19, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (9)
NASA's Human Computers by Historically Black