Editor’s Note: Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly is a terrific book about the group of African American female mathematicians who worked as “human computers” at NASA starting in the 1940s. The book was made into a movie with the same name. It’s also terrific. As I read the book, I was fascinated with the…
John Glenn, Astronaut and U.S. Senator (1921-2016)
Launch of Friendship 7 on Feb. 20, 1962, the first manned orbital space flight. Astronaut John Glenn aboard, the Mercury-Atlas rocket is launched from Pad 14. (Photo: NASA)