NASA's Human Computers

Today computers are ubiquitous. You are listening to this podcast right now on some sort of computing device.  However, before computers were machines, the name computer was given to people. Computers were people who computed.  In fact, the early days of NASA and the space program relied upon these human computers, most of whom were women.  Learn more about NASA’s human computers and the role they played in the development of spaceflight on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Previous Episodes Referenced https://everything-everywhere.com/apollo-13/ https://everything-everywhere.com/the-history-of-nasa/ Subscribe to the podcast!  https://link.chtbl.com/EverythingEverywhere?sid=ShowNotes -------------------------------- Executive Producer: Darcy Adams Associate Producers: Peter Bennett & Thor Thomsen   Become a supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingeverywhere Update your podcast app at newpodcastapps.com Discord Server: https://discord.gg/UkRUJFh Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/everythingeverywhere/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/EverythingEverywhere Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/everythingeverywheredaily Twitter: https://twitter.com/everywheretrip Website: https://everything-everywhere.com/everything-everywhere-daily-podcast/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices