{"id":46557,"date":"2016-04-11T01:50:20","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T01:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46557"},"modified":"2016-04-11T01:50:20","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T01:50:20","slug":"the-human-computer-behind-the-moon-landing-was-a-black-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=46557","title":{"rendered":"The \u2018Human Computer\u2019 Behind the Moon Landing Was a Black Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/videos\/2016\/04\/07\/the-human-computer-behind-the-moon-landing-was-a-black-woman.html\" target=\"_blank\">The \u2018Human Computer\u2019 Behind the Moon Landing Was a Black Woman<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Daily Beast<\/a><br \/>\n2016-04-07<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nathplac\" target=\"_blank\">Nathan Place<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"302\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/crgis.ndc.nasa.gov\/historic\/Katherine_Johnson\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/crgis.ndc.nasa.gov\/crgis\/images\/c\/cf\/1971-L-03033.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>Image of <a href=\"http:\/\/crgis.ndc.nasa.gov\/historic\/Katherine_Johnson\" target=\"_blank\">Katherine Johnson<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Langley_Research_Center\" target=\"_blank\">NASA Langley Research Center<\/a> in 1971.<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><em>In an age of racism and sexism, <a href=\"http:\/\/Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson\" target=\"_blank\">Katherine Johnson<\/a> broke both barriers at <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NASA\" target=\"_blank\">NASA<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>She calculated the trajectory of man\u2019s first trip to the moon, and was such an accurate mathematician that <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Glenn\" target=\"_blank\">John Glenn<\/a> asked her to double-check <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NASA\" target=\"_blank\">NASA\u2019s<\/a> computers. To top it off, she did it all as a black woman in the 1950s and \u201960s, when women at NASA were not even invited to meetings.<\/p>\n<p>And you\u2019ve probably never heard of her.<\/p>\n<p>Meet <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Katherine_Johnson\" target=\"_blank\">Katherine Johnson<\/a>, the African-American woman who earned the nickname \u201cthe human computer\u201d at NASA during its space race golden age&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/videos\/2016\/04\/07\/the-human-computer-behind-the-moon-landing-was-a-black-woman.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u2018Human Computer\u2019 Behind the Moon Landing Was a Black Woman The Daily Beast 2016-04-07 Nathan Place Image of Katherine Johnson at NASA Langley Research Center in 1971. In an age of racism and sexism, Katherine Johnson broke both barriers at NASA. She calculated the trajectory of man\u2019s first trip to the moon, and was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1245,459,8,20,25],"tags":[23496,19570,19571,19572,23497,19573,13384],"class_list":["post-46557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-biography","category-history","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-women","tag-hidden-figures","tag-katherine-coleman-goble-johnson","tag-katherine-johnson","tag-nasa","tag-nathan-place","tag-national-aeronautics-and-space-administration","tag-the-daily-beast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46558,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46557\/revisions\/46558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}