Black Women Who Helped Launch the U.S. Space Race Program
In the late 1950s, what we know today as NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) used to be NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics).
NACA hired African American women to work in the West Computing Unit. Even though the women in this unit helped with the complex math problems, they were segregated from the white workers. That mean…
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