![]() As the years passed and the center evolved, the West Wing Computers - the East Wing consisted of white women - became engineers, (electronic) computer programmers, the first black managers at Langley and trajectory whizzes whose work propelled the first American, John Glenn, into orbit in 1962. In those days, it was known as Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory, and it was run by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). ![]() ![]() Shetterly's new book, "Hidden Figures" (William Morrow, 2016) follows the black women at Langley who were first hired during World War II as "computers," scratching out complex computations for the center's aeronautical and rocket research before the days of electronic computing. ![]() Margot Shetterly, author of "Hidden Figures" (Image credit: William Morrow) ![]()
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