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 ...

Women have played crucial roles in advancing space exploration throughout NASA's 62 years, from performing calculations to sending astronauts to the moon to launching into space themselves as mission ...

A diverse and potent force in space exploration, women at NASA who served as human computers were ultimately responsible for sending astronauts to the moon. By Nathalia Holt Computers at the Jet ...

For decades, the contributions of the black female mathematicians who helped get NASA astronauts into space stayed essentially hidden. Not anymore. Now, you’ll be reminded of what the women did even ...

The United States may not have won the Space Race had it not been for the contributions of three African-American women. World War II left the US with a shortage of male labor, leading various federal ...

In 1955, Annie Easley started working for NASA's predecessor organization, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). Her job was to serve as a "human computer," which was a position ...