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6 days ago · THE GOLDEN GIRLS -- Season 1 -- Pictured: (l-r) Rue McClanahan as Blanche Devereaux-. Herb Ball/NBCU Photo Bank "Oh please, it’s bad enough hearing all those snickers as you walk down the aisle ...
4 days ago · NASA Hidden Figure Dorothy J. Vaughan. Vaughan was NACA’s first black supervisor and one of its few female supervisors. Dorothy Vaughan became an expert FORTRAN programmer, and she also ...
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5 days ago · Dorothy Vaughan, American mathematician and computer programmer who made important contributions to the early years of the U.S. space program and who was the first African American manager at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, which later became part of NASA.
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- Dorothy Vaughan was a computer programmer who made important contributions to the U.S. space program. She was relatively unknown until 2016, when a...
- Dorothy Vaughan performed complex computations and analyzed data for aerospace engineers, work that was later essential to the success of the early...
- Dorothy Vaughan’s employer, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, was segregated, and black employees were forced to use separate bathro...
Sep 3, 2024 · As we welcome the Chinese New Year, take some time to discover your Chinese Zodiac sign and learn more about its meaning and significance. Whether you are a Rat, Dragon, or Pig, embrace the unique qualities of your Zodiac sign and use them to guide you through the year ahead.
3 days ago · NEW YORK (AP) — The hidden figures of the space race were recognized with Congress’ highest honor at a medal ceremony on Wednesday. The Congressional Gold Medal was presented to the families of...
Sep 9, 2024 · Dorothy Vaughan died just shy of her 100th birthday in 2004. The unseen 42-page transcript was recently discovered among boxes of documents that her heirs gave to the New Hampshire Historical Society in Concord.
3 days ago · Among them are three trailblazers being honored posthumously — Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Wanda Jackson — whose work on the Apollo space program helped land the first humans on the moon and inspired the book and movie “Hidden Figures.”
