"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
02/24/2020 at 10:23 • Filed to: wingspan, Planelopnik, Spacelopnik
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(NASA)
In 1962, as NASA prepared for the orbital mission of John Glenn, Katherine Johnson was called upon to do the work that she would become most known for. The complexity of the orbital flight had required the construction of a worldwide communications network, linking tracking stations around the world to IBM computers in Washington, Cape Canaveral in Florida, and Bermuda. The computers had been programmed with the orbital equations that would control the trajectory of the capsule in Glenn’s Friendship 7 mission from liftoff to splashdown, but the astronauts were wary of putting their lives in the care of the electronic calculating machines, which were prone to hiccups and blackouts. As a part of the preflight checklist, Glenn asked engineers to “get the girl”—Katherine Johnson—to run the same numbers through the same equations that had been programmed into the computer, but by hand, on her desktop mechanical calculating machine. “If she says they’re good,’” Katherine Johnson remembers the astronaut saying, “then I’m ready to go.” Glenn’s flight was a success, and marked a turning point in the competition between the United States and the Soviet Union in space. (NASA)
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> ttyymmnn
02/24/2020 at 10:38 |
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Her list of accomplishments is stunning
McMike
> ttyymmnn
02/24/2020 at 10:52 |
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I can’t tell you how happy I am that she outlived the flat earth guy.
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ttyymmnn
> McMike
02/24/2020 at 10:58 |
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#COTD
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ttyymmnn
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02/24/2020 at 10:58 |
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Especially considering the era.
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McMike
> ttyymmnn
02/24/2020 at 12:11 |
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Given the appropriate data, she could have probably predicted where he would have landed, and how flat he would have been.
Khalbali
> McMike
02/24/2020 at 12:23 |
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To be fair, from what I read on Wikipedia it seems like he was really just a rocket guy and then became a flat earther to get funding, so I’m not sure how much he really believed it. I also don't see why if you want to prove the earth is flat you would build a rocket to get you 2000' up instead of just flying commercial around the world.
Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> ttyymmnn
02/24/2020 at 12:30 |
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Her salary was probably 50% what the boys earned.
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Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> ttyymmnn
02/24/2020 at 12:32 |
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Isn’t she the one who invented chemtrails? Or was it Von Brown the Nazi who did that?