Trivia: NASA workers who made mathematical calculations were called what?
Bookkeepers
Prospectors
Spelunkers
Computers
Correct Answer: Computers
So why is this answer correct? : From the 1940s to 1960s, NASA relied on human “computers” to perform calculations with reliable accuracy. NASA’s computers were primarily women and often African American, and were tasked with determining the positions and trajectories of spacecraft. Human computers were essential to NASA missions such as the 1969 moon landing. The 2016 movie “Hidden Figures” is about NASA computers Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson.