@currentlyinscience: Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson broke barriers behind the scenes at NASA’s Langley Research Center, calculating flight trajectories, leading computing teams, and engineering the future of space travel despite segregation and discrimination. Katherine Johnson: A mathematical genius who calculated orbital trajectories and launch windows for Project Mercury and the Apollo 11 Moon landing. Her math was so trusted that astronaut John Glenn refused to fly into orbit until she personally verified the IBM computer calculations. 
Dorothy Vaughan: NASA’s first Black female supervisor and expert programmer who led the West Area Computers. 
Mary Jackson: NASA’s first Black female engineer who advanced aeronautical research. Their brilliance changed aerospace history forever, inspiring generations of women in STEM to dream bigger, fly higher, and reach farther. We honor the pioneers, engineers, mathematicians, pilots, and scientists who transformed aviation and space exploration forever. Follow for more science news, facts, and memes. 🌐 #HiddenFigures #Aerospace #WomeninSTEM #Science #SpaceTok

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