Editor’s Note: After reading Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly, a book published in 2016 about the group of African American women who were mathematicians at NASA beginning in the 1940s, in 2018 I decided to ask to interview Dr. Bill Barry, NASA historian. Scheduled weeks in advance for Feb. 9 at NASA headquarters in…
‘Human computers’ did the math
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly was published in 2016 and has a Young Readers' edition as well.