The American Rocket Scientists You Never Knew.

[katsteve2012]

When John Glenn became the first American in space, I thought, WOW! It must have taken top mathematical geniuses to calculate all the variables necessary to get him up and back safely.

while Glenn was the hero who risked his life. The mathematicians who crunched the numbers necessary to bring success went unheralded.



At the time I envisioned NASA as the domain of brainy White males

in white smocks with clipboards in hand. Television brought images of the control room where rows of white faces sat in front of monitors and weird looking machinery. I marveled at the seeming wizardry and silently gave credit to those White men for being mathematical geniuses.



Fifty six years later I discovered just how wrong I was. The success of Glen's historic flight depended on a female mathematician who helped with the calculations. Does that shock you? In the1960s, that women could be so deeply involved in a man's domain was astounding in and of itself. But the story of this female mathematician took on an even more incredible turn when I earned she was ... OMG,! She is BLACK!



I was floored. After all these years this story is just now surfacing. The shock was just beginning to wear off when I discovered there was not just one, there were two other Black female mathematical geniuses working for NASA at that time.



A film is being made to finally give these fine Americans their just recognition and rewards. I am chartering a bus to take as many people with me as I can to join me when in viewing it on the big screen.
How three black women helped send John Glenn into orbit

Katherine Johnson at Nasa Langley Research Center in 1980. Photograph: Nasa

Thanks for posting this JQ, and happy holidays, my brother.

I remember hearing my father talking about her back around the time that she was working there.

As you may recall from previous conversations that we have had, my father was an educator and often told me:

"There are two histories in America...the one that you learn in school and the history that the school system chooses to not teach".

Like those history books that no longer include anything about the Wright Bros, first humans to fly, to make room for Guatemalan precinct captains? And why would you post an image of a white woman at the keyboard?

First of all, I didnt post the picture, but since you are apparently irrirated by it, I will say that you should get out more.often.

There are black people who range from light skinned with straight hair to the exact opposite.

History books generally are full of information about European mathematicians, after all, the school system curriculum in America is for the most part Eurocentric and generally has portrayed black people and other minorities as savage, uneducated and dependent on white Europeans.

 

[JQPublic1]

When John Glenn became the first American in space, I thought, WOW! It must have taken top mathematical geniuses to calculate all the variables necessary to get him up and back safely.

while Glenn was the hero who risked his life. The mathematicians who crunched the numbers necessary to bring success went unheralded.



At the time I envisioned NASA as the domain of brainy White males

in white smocks with clipboards in hand. Television brought images of the control room where rows of white faces sat in front of monitors and weird looking machinery. I marveled at the seeming wizardry and silently gave credit to those White men for being mathematical geniuses.



Fifty six years later I discovered just how wrong I was. The success of Glen's historic flight depended on a female mathematician who helped with the calculations. Does that shock you? In the1960s, that women could be so deeply involved in a man's domain was astounding in and of itself. But the story of this female mathematician took on an even more incredible turn when I earned she was ... OMG,! She is BLACK!



I was floored. After all these years this story is just now surfacing. The shock was just beginning to wear off when I discovered there was not just one, there were two other Black female mathematical geniuses working for NASA at that time.



A film is being made to finally give these fine Americans their just recognition and rewards. I am chartering a bus to take as many people with me as I can to join me when in viewing it on the big screen.
How three black women helped send John Glenn into orbit

Katherine Johnson at Nasa Langley Research Center in 1980. Photograph: Nasa

Sorry to burst you racial group orgasm, but...

http://www.vdare.com/articles/hyped...-black-women-were-not-what-got-us-to-the-moon

You can't burst anything. I refuse to empower you at all. I merely uncovered the contributions these Black women made to the space program. The revelation of their accomplishments is especially astounding considering the era in which they worked and lived. You too should celebrate these real American heroines who defied the odds and stereotypes that are still so much a part of our "social conditioning."

Fake history.

YOU wish.. Here is a video for you to heap your scorn upon:

 

[katsteve2012]

When John Glenn became the first American in space, I thought, WOW! It must have taken top mathematical geniuses to calculate all the variables necessary to get him up and back safely.

while Glenn was the hero who risked his life. The mathematicians who crunched the numbers necessary to bring success went unheralded.



At the time I envisioned NASA as the domain of brainy White males

in white smocks with clipboards in hand. Television brought images of the control room where rows of white faces sat in front of monitors and weird looking machinery. I marveled at the seeming wizardry and silently gave credit to those White men for being mathematical geniuses.



Fifty six years later I discovered just how wrong I was. The success of Glen's historic flight depended on a female mathematician who helped with the calculations. Does that shock you? In the1960s, that women could be so deeply involved in a man's domain was astounding in and of itself. But the story of this female mathematician took on an even more incredible turn when I earned she was ... OMG,! She is BLACK!



I was floored. After all these years this story is just now surfacing. The shock was just beginning to wear off when I discovered there was not just one, there were two other Black female mathematical geniuses working for NASA at that time.



A film is being made to finally give these fine Americans their just recognition and rewards. I am chartering a bus to take as many people with me as I can to join me when in viewing it on the big screen.
How three black women helped send John Glenn into orbit

Katherine Johnson at Nasa Langley Research Center in 1980. Photograph: Nasa

Sorry to burst you racial group orgasm, but...

http://www.vdare.com/articles/hyped...-black-women-were-not-what-got-us-to-the-moon

You can't burst anything. I refuse to empower you at all. I merely uncovered the contributions these Black women made to the space program. The revelation of their accomplishments is especially astounding considering the era in which they worked and lived. You too should celebrate these real American heroines who defied the odds and stereotypes that are still so much a part of our "social conditioning."

Fake history.

YOU wish.. Here is a video for you to heap your scorn upon:

Thank you. The ignorance of some people is astounding.

 

[cnelsen]

When John Glenn became the first American in space, I thought, WOW! It must have taken top mathematical geniuses to calculate all the variables necessary to get him up and back safely.

while Glenn was the hero who risked his life. The mathematicians who crunched the numbers necessary to bring success went unheralded.



At the time I envisioned NASA as the domain of brainy White males

in white smocks with clipboards in hand. Television brought images of the control room where rows of white faces sat in front of monitors and weird looking machinery. I marveled at the seeming wizardry and silently gave credit to those White men for being mathematical geniuses.



Fifty six years later I discovered just how wrong I was. The success of Glen's historic flight depended on a female mathematician who helped with the calculations. Does that shock you? In the1960s, that women could be so deeply involved in a man's domain was astounding in and of itself. But the story of this female mathematician took on an even more incredible turn when I earned she was ... OMG,! She is BLACK!



I was floored. After all these years this story is just now surfacing. The shock was just beginning to wear off when I discovered there was not just one, there were two other Black female mathematical geniuses working for NASA at that time.



A film is being made to finally give these fine Americans their just recognition and rewards. I am chartering a bus to take as many people with me as I can to join me when in viewing it on the big screen.
How three black women helped send John Glenn into orbit

Katherine Johnson at Nasa Langley Research Center in 1980. Photograph: Nasa

Thanks for posting this JQ, and happy holidays, my brother.

I remember hearing my father talking about her back around the time that she was working there.

As you may recall from previous conversations that we have had, my father was an educator and often told me:

"There are two histories in America...the one that you learn in school and the history that the school system chooses to not teach".

Like those history books that no longer include anything about the Wright Bros, first humans to fly, to make room for Guatemalan precinct captains? And why would you post an image of a white woman at the keyboard?

First of all, I didnt post the picture, but since you are apparently irrirated by it, I will say that you should get out more.often.

There are black people who range from light skinned with straight hair to the exact opposite.

History books generally are full of information about European mathematicians, after all, the school system curriculum in America is for the most part Eurocentric and generally has portrayed black people and other minorities as savage, uneducated and dependent on white Europeans.

No, a history of mathematics will be full of information about mathematicians. The mathematicians who made mathematical history were overwhelmingly white. But in our modern Euromerica, if this historical truth is taught accurately, the curriculum is denounced as "Eurocentric" and the system, therefore, somehow racist and evil simply for doing what the system was designed to do: educate students. So we have an array of mediocrities like the OP come rushing out to fake everything up.

Mediocre blacks want a share in a racial glory regardless to whether it is accurate. Mediocre whites want to assert their moral superiority by subjecting their own ancestors to lies and obscurity. Both are played against each other by Jewish Hollywood, which is driven by its hatred of white achievement.

I don't know who is behind this latest salvo from Hollywood elevating black female nonentities at the expense of white male achievement, but it's a safe bet it is Jews, and it is a sure bet it isn't blacks. And that should tell you something.

 

[cnelsen]

When John Glenn became the first American in space, I thought, WOW! It must have taken top mathematical geniuses to calculate all the variables necessary to get him up and back safely.

while Glenn was the hero who risked his life. The mathematicians who crunched the numbers necessary to bring success went unheralded.



At the time I envisioned NASA as the domain of brainy White males

in white smocks with clipboards in hand. Television brought images of the control room where rows of white faces sat in front of monitors and weird looking machinery. I marveled at the seeming wizardry and silently gave credit to those White men for being mathematical geniuses.



Fifty six years later I discovered just how wrong I was. The success of Glen's historic flight depended on a female mathematician who helped with the calculations. Does that shock you? In the1960s, that women could be so deeply involved in a man's domain was astounding in and of itself. But the story of this female mathematician took on an even more incredible turn when I earned she was ... OMG,! She is BLACK!



I was floored. After all these years this story is just now surfacing. The shock was just beginning to wear off when I discovered there was not just one, there were two other Black female mathematical geniuses working for NASA at that time.



A film is being made to finally give these fine Americans their just recognition and rewards. I am chartering a bus to take as many people with me as I can to join me when in viewing it on the big screen.
How three black women helped send John Glenn into orbit

Katherine Johnson at Nasa Langley Research Center in 1980. Photograph: Nasa

Sorry to burst you racial group orgasm, but...

http://www.vdare.com/articles/hyped...-black-women-were-not-what-got-us-to-the-moon

You can't burst anything. I refuse to empower you at all. I merely uncovered the contributions these Black women made to the space program. The revelation of their accomplishments is especially astounding considering the era in which they worked and lived. You too should celebrate these real American heroines who defied the odds and stereotypes that are still so much a part of our "social conditioning."

Fake history.

YOU wish.. Here is a video for you to heap your scorn upon:

"Langley has a post for black mathematicians." Hahahaha

 

[katsteve2012]

When John Glenn became the first American in space, I thought, WOW! It must have taken top mathematical geniuses to calculate all the variables necessary to get him up and back safely.

while Glenn was the hero who risked his life. The mathematicians who crunched the numbers necessary to bring success went unheralded.



At the time I envisioned NASA as the domain of brainy White males

in white smocks with clipboards in hand. Television brought images of the control room where rows of white faces sat in front of monitors and weird looking machinery. I marveled at the seeming wizardry and silently gave credit to those White men for being mathematical geniuses.



Fifty six years later I discovered just how wrong I was. The success of Glen's historic flight depended on a female mathematician who helped with the calculations. Does that shock you? In the1960s, that women could be so deeply involved in a man's domain was astounding in and of itself. But the story of this female mathematician took on an even more incredible turn when I earned she was ... OMG,! She is BLACK!



I was floored. After all these years this story is just now surfacing. The shock was just beginning to wear off when I discovered there was not just one, there were two other Black female mathematical geniuses working for NASA at that time.



A film is being made to finally give these fine Americans their just recognition and rewards. I am chartering a bus to take as many people with me as I can to join me when in viewing it on the big screen.
How three black women helped send John Glenn into orbit

Katherine Johnson at Nasa Langley Research Center in 1980. Photograph: Nasa

Thanks for posting this JQ, and happy holidays, my brother.

I remember hearing my father talking about her back around the time that she was working there.

As you may recall from previous conversations that we have had, my father was an educator and often told me:

"There are two histories in America...the one that you learn in school and the history that the school system chooses to not teach".

Like those history books that no longer include anything about the Wright Bros, first humans to fly, to make room for Guatemalan precinct captains? And why would you post an image of a white woman at the keyboard?

First of all, I didnt post the picture, but since you are apparently irrirated by it, I will say that you should get out more.often.

There are black people who range from light skinned with straight hair to the exact opposite.

History books generally are full of information about European mathematicians, after all, the school system curriculum in America is for the most part Eurocentric and generally has portrayed black people and other minorities as savage, uneducated and dependent on white Europeans.

No, a history of mathematics will be full of information about mathematicians. The mathematicians who made mathematical history were overwhelmingly white. But in our modern Euromerica, if this historical truth is taught accurately, the curriculum is denounced as "Eurocentric" and the system, therefore, somehow racist and evil simply for doing what the system was designed to do: educate students. So we have an array of mediocrities like the OP come rushing out to fake everything up.

Mediocre blacks want a share in a racial glory regardless to whether it is accurate. Mediocre whites want to assert their moral superiority by subjecting their own ancestors to lies and obscurity. Both are played against each other by Jewish Hollywood, which is driven by its hatred of white achievement.

I don't know who is behind this latest salvo from Hollywood elevating black female nonentities at the expense of white male achievement, but it's a safe bet it is Jews, and it is a sure bet it isn't blacks. And that should tell you something.

What your post tells me is that:

A. You dislike Jews, and this type of scapegoating is what brought Hitler into power in Nazi Germany.

B. You view any acknowledged achievement by anyone other than white males in history as being at the "expense of white males" and that somehow it marginalizes their achievements.


C. You view minorities and females in general as inferior to white males.

 

[Skull Pilot]

I saw Costner do an interview about the movie it looks like it might be good
I hope it's done as well as the Imitation game

 

[cnelsen]

When John Glenn became the first American in space, I thought, WOW! It must have taken top mathematical geniuses to calculate all the variables necessary to get him up and back safely.

while Glenn was the hero who risked his life. The mathematicians who crunched the numbers necessary to bring success went unheralded.



At the time I envisioned NASA as the domain of brainy White males

in white smocks with clipboards in hand. Television brought images of the control room where rows of white faces sat in front of monitors and weird looking machinery. I marveled at the seeming wizardry and silently gave credit to those White men for being mathematical geniuses.



Fifty six years later I discovered just how wrong I was. The success of Glen's historic flight depended on a female mathematician who helped with the calculations. Does that shock you? In the1960s, that women could be so deeply involved in a man's domain was astounding in and of itself. But the story of this female mathematician took on an even more incredible turn when I earned she was ... OMG,! She is BLACK!



I was floored. After all these years this story is just now surfacing. The shock was just beginning to wear off when I discovered there was not just one, there were two other Black female mathematical geniuses working for NASA at that time.



A film is being made to finally give these fine Americans their just recognition and rewards. I am chartering a bus to take as many people with me as I can to join me when in viewing it on the big screen.
How three black women helped send John Glenn into orbit

Katherine Johnson at Nasa Langley Research Center in 1980. Photograph: Nasa

Thanks for posting this JQ, and happy holidays, my brother.

I remember hearing my father talking about her back around the time that she was working there.

As you may recall from previous conversations that we have had, my father was an educator and often told me:

"There are two histories in America...the one that you learn in school and the history that the school system chooses to not teach".

Like those history books that no longer include anything about the Wright Bros, first humans to fly, to make room for Guatemalan precinct captains? And why would you post an image of a white woman at the keyboard?

First of all, I didnt post the picture, but since you are apparently irrirated by it, I will say that you should get out more.often.

There are black people who range from light skinned with straight hair to the exact opposite.

History books generally are full of information about European mathematicians, after all, the school system curriculum in America is for the most part Eurocentric and generally has portrayed black people and other minorities as savage, uneducated and dependent on white Europeans.

No, a history of mathematics will be full of information about mathematicians. The mathematicians who made mathematical history were overwhelmingly white. But in our modern Euromerica, if this historical truth is taught accurately, the curriculum is denounced as "Eurocentric" and the system, therefore, somehow racist and evil simply for doing what the system was designed to do: educate students. So we have an array of mediocrities like the OP come rushing out to fake everything up.

Mediocre blacks want a share in a racial glory regardless to whether it is accurate. Mediocre whites want to assert their moral superiority by subjecting their own ancestors to lies and obscurity. Both are played against each other by Jewish Hollywood, which is driven by its hatred of white achievement.

I don't know who is behind this latest salvo from Hollywood elevating black female nonentities at the expense of white male achievement, but it's a safe bet it is Jews, and it is a sure bet it isn't blacks. And that should tell you something.

What your post tells me is that:

A. You dislike Jews, and this type of scapegoating is what brought Hitler into power in Nazi Germany.

B. You view any acknowledged achievement by anyone other than white males in history as being at the "expense of white males" and that somehow it marginalizes their achievements.


C. You view minorities and females in general as inferior to white males.

A. So?
B. Nope. People can marvel all they want about the Egyptian pyramids or the great wall of China or the Mayan calendar, and it's no skin off my dick. White males had nothing to do with them. But if some Jew makes a movie about an obscure runaway mulatto working as a janitor in Leibniz' laboratory really coming up with calculus after hours and presents it as the truth finally revealed, I'm going to squawk.
C. Nope. But if they need to denigrate white males and falsely claim white male achievement as their own rather than go out and achieve on their own, then they are themselves acting as if they are inferior.

Ask yourself again why Jewish Hollywood produces movie after movie after movie portraying black Americans as superior noble humans victimized by thieving oppressive whites. Do you think it is because Jews have the best interests of blacks at heart?

 

[Wyatt earp]

When John Glenn became the first American in space, I thought, WOW! It must have taken top mathematical geniuses to calculate all the variables necessary to get him up and back safely.

while Glenn was the hero who risked his life. The mathematicians who crunched the numbers necessary to bring success went unheralded.



At the time I envisioned NASA as the domain of brainy White males

in white smocks with clipboards in hand. Television brought images of the control room where rows of white faces sat in front of monitors and weird looking machinery. I marveled at the seeming wizardry and silently gave credit to those White men for being mathematical geniuses.



Fifty six years later I discovered just how wrong I was. The success of Glen's historic flight depended on a female mathematician who helped with the calculations. Does that shock you? In the1960s, that women could be so deeply involved in a man's domain was astounding in and of itself. But the story of this female mathematician took on an even more incredible turn when I earned she was ... OMG,! She is BLACK!



I was floored. After all these years this story is just now surfacing. The shock was just beginning to wear off when I discovered there was not just one, there were two other Black female mathematical geniuses working for NASA at that time.



A film is being made to finally give these fine Americans their just recognition and rewards. I am chartering a bus to take as many people with me as I can to join me when in viewing it on the big screen.
How three black women helped send John Glenn into orbit

Katherine Johnson at Nasa Langley Research Center in 1980. Photograph: Nasa

Thanks for posting this JQ, and happy holidays, my brother.

I remember hearing my father talking about her back around the time that she was working there.

As you may recall from previous conversations that we have had, my father was an educator and often told me:

"There are two histories in America...the one that you learn in school and the history that the school system chooses to not teach".

Like those history books that no longer include anything about the Wright Bros, first humans to fly, to make room for Guatemalan precinct captains? And why would you post an image of a white woman at the keyboard?

As usual , the authors of American history often embellishes the accomplishments of white males and neglects the achievements of other Americans. Sometimes those embellishments are reviewed by real historical scholars and put into proper perspective. For instance:

The Wright Brothers were NOT the first humans to fly. Have you forgotten the fact that manned hot air balloons debuted half a century before the Wright's
12 second powered flight. See how gullible you are? And even THAT powered flight "achievement" was precedented by Europeans.

The photograph you see is a picture of Katherine Johnson, an African American....look closer or read the ink I provided for validation. And for those who are too offended by this revelation to go to the link..here are pictures of the other two Black female mathematical geniuses:

Mary Jackson at NASA Langley Research Centre in 1980. Photograph: Bob Nye/NASA

Dorothy Vaughan in her twenties. Photograph: Courtesy the Family of Dorothy Johnson Vaughan

Have you forgotten the fact that manned hot air balloons debuted half a century before the Wright's
12 second powered flight. See how gullible you are? And even THAT powered flight "achievement" was precedented by Europeans.



Holy shit I knew you were a fucking GOD DAMN indocterated piece of shit liberal


But this one takes the cake



Do you know the historical difference between balloons and wing flight?


My Bad I forgot about the balloon flight you can book New York to London in 2 hrs.


Stupid dumb mother fucking idiot


.

 

[Correll]

When John Glenn became the first American in space, I thought, WOW! It must have taken top mathematical geniuses to calculate all the variables necessary to get him up and back safely.

while Glenn was the hero who risked his life. The mathematicians who crunched the numbers necessary to bring success went unheralded.



At the time I envisioned NASA as the domain of brainy White males

in white smocks with clipboards in hand. Television brought images of the control room where rows of white faces sat in front of monitors and weird looking machinery. I marveled at the seeming wizardry and silently gave credit to those White men for being mathematical geniuses.



Fifty six years later I discovered just how wrong I was. The success of Glen's historic flight depended on a female mathematician who helped with the calculations. Does that shock you? In the1960s, that women could be so deeply involved in a man's domain was astounding in and of itself. But the story of this female mathematician took on an even more incredible turn when I earned she was ... OMG,! She is BLACK!



I was floored. After all these years this story is just now surfacing. The shock was just beginning to wear off when I discovered there was not just one, there were two other Black female mathematical geniuses working for NASA at that time.



A film is being made to finally give these fine Americans their just recognition and rewards. I am chartering a bus to take as many people with me as I can to join me when in viewing it on the big screen.
How three black women helped send John Glenn into orbit

Katherine Johnson at Nasa Langley Research Center in 1980. Photograph: Nasa

You really think that in a nation of 180 million people, that there were not white people good enough at math to do that work?


How about a kudos to the white administrators who were happy to hire "people of color" based on their abilities in an era when AA was a pale shadow of what it is today (no pun intended)

How about looking at it another way?. Neither MOST White people or the MOST of any other people in this country at the time were good enough at math to do the work. These Black women were stand outs in any crowd in any era. I am just proud that they were also Americans. Aren't YOU?

Of course most people are not qualified to do the math to do a space shot.

Yes, EVERYONE seriously involved was a "stand out".

I have pride in the accomplishments of the nation in the Space Race. I have always known that there were a lot of people who's names I did not know involved. This news tidbit changes nothing for me.

Yes, we know about the great White men who were also mathematical and literary geniuses. Their history is recorded everywhere and dominates all levels of academia. We also know the reasoning behind that phenomenon. It is integral to the mass social conditioning apparatus designed to inculcate every school child, Black, White or whatever, that White is superior and Black is inferior. Why else would such positive facts about Black cognizance be ignored? Instead , the effects of social conditioning are capitalized on and used copiously to portray Blacks as less intelligent, less ambitious and less worthy..with nothing to contribute.

Your conspiracy theory is noted. It is also at odds with the national consensus on Race of the last 60 years.

Why were three individuals among hundreds of thousands not famous? Gee, I don't know.


How many white rocket scientists can you name? 5? 10?

When wise men saw that genius is not exclusive to White people, as exhibited by these three women, a ray of hope broke through the dark clouds of hopelessness. In this case NASA hired these women because they were just as good or better mathematicians than comparable White men and could be PAID LESS.

The USA of the 1960s were not a dystopia of hopelessness.

For SOME, life seemed hopeless! Have you heard of southern sharecroppers? That reality was not imagined. In some places potential was stifled by Jim Crow and opportunity was suppressed by abject racism and discrimination

For all of history, there has been potential stifled by various factors, from Jim Crow, to serfdom, to simply lack of opportunity in an economy vastly made up of subsidence agriculture.


Young adults in 1960 would have been children during WWII, with Europe ruled by Nazis, and had parents who lived though the Great Depression, and grandfathers that remembered the trenches and poison gas of the Great War.

Compared to all of history before it and/or the world of the time, USA 1960 was NOT a dystopia of hopelessness.

You know something that really kills hope? Dwelling on past injustices.

 

[BuckToothMoron]

When John Glenn became the first American in space, I thought, WOW! It must have taken top mathematical geniuses to calculate all the variables necessary to get him up and back safely.

while Glenn was the hero who risked his life. The mathematicians who crunched the numbers necessary to bring success went unheralded.



At the time I envisioned NASA as the domain of brainy White males

in white smocks with clipboards in hand. Television brought images of the control room where rows of white faces sat in front of monitors and weird looking machinery. I marveled at the seeming wizardry and silently gave credit to those White men for being mathematical geniuses.



Fifty six years later I discovered just how wrong I was. The success of Glen's historic flight depended on a female mathematician who helped with the calculations. Does that shock you? In the1960s, that women could be so deeply involved in a man's domain was astounding in and of itself. But the story of this female mathematician took on an even more incredible turn when I earned she was ... OMG,! She is BLACK!



I was floored. After all these years this story is just now surfacing. The shock was just beginning to wear off when I discovered there was not just one, there were two other Black female mathematical geniuses working for NASA at that time.



A film is being made to finally give these fine Americans their just recognition and rewards. I am chartering a bus to take as many people with me as I can to join me when in viewing it on the big screen.
How three black women helped send John Glenn into orbit

Katherine Johnson at Nasa Langley Research Center in 1980. Photograph: Nasa

Thanks for posting this JQ, and happy holidays, my brother.

I remember hearing my father talking about her back around the time that she was working there.

As you may recall from previous conversations that we have had, my father was an educator and often told me:

"There are two histories in America...the one that you learn in school and the history that the school system chooses to not teach".

Like those history books that no longer include anything about the Wright Bros, first humans to fly, to make room for Guatemalan precinct captains? And why would you post an image of a white woman at the keyboard?

As usual , the authors of American history often embellishes the accomplishments of white males and neglects the achievements of other Americans. Sometimes those embellishments are reviewed by real historical scholars and put into proper perspective. For instance:

The Wright Brothers were NOT the first humans to fly. Have you forgotten the fact that manned hot air balloons debuted half a century before the Wright's
12 second powered flight. See how gullible you are? And even THAT powered flight "achievement" was precedented by Europeans.

The photograph you see is a picture of Katherine Johnson, an African American....look closer or read the ink I provided for validation. And for those who are too offended by this revelation to go to the link..here are pictures of the other two Black female mathematical geniuses:

Mary Jackson at NASA Langley Research Centre in 1980. Photograph: Bob Nye/NASA

Dorothy Vaughan in her twenties. Photograph: Courtesy the Family of Dorothy Johnson Vaughan

A hot air balloon is not flight. It's floatation caused by a lighter mass floating on a denser medium. It's displacement and follows Archimedes principle.
Archimedes' principle indicates that the upward buoyant force that is exerted on a body immersed in a fluid, whether fully or partially submerged, is equal to the weight of the fluid that the body displaces and it acts in the upward direction at the centre of mass of the displaced fluid. Archimedes' principle is a law of physics fundamental to fluid mechanics. It was formulated by Archimedes of Syracuse.[1]

Flight is defined by aerodynamic principles of lift, drag, thrust and weight.

Now who is revising history here?

Did you read the link I provided? take it up with THEM. I'd rather focus on the op. Aren't these women wonderful?

The women are a extraordinary; you, not so much. You strike me as a feel good guy who is not really concerned with the truth, but rather being politically correct. That is why at least 2 of your post in this thread had significant factual errors.

 

[Correll]

When John Glenn became the first American in space, I thought, WOW! It must have taken top mathematical geniuses to calculate all the variables necessary to get him up and back safely.

while Glenn was the hero who risked his life. The mathematicians who crunched the numbers necessary to bring success went unheralded.



At the time I envisioned NASA as the domain of brainy White males

in white smocks with clipboards in hand. Television brought images of the control room where rows of white faces sat in front of monitors and weird looking machinery. I marveled at the seeming wizardry and silently gave credit to those White men for being mathematical geniuses.



Fifty six years later I discovered just how wrong I was. The success of Glen's historic flight depended on a female mathematician who helped with the calculations. Does that shock you? In the1960s, that women could be so deeply involved in a man's domain was astounding in and of itself. But the story of this female mathematician took on an even more incredible turn when I earned she was ... OMG,! She is BLACK!



I was floored. After all these years this story is just now surfacing. The shock was just beginning to wear off when I discovered there was not just one, there were two other Black female mathematical geniuses working for NASA at that time.



A film is being made to finally give these fine Americans their just recognition and rewards. I am chartering a bus to take as many people with me as I can to join me when in viewing it on the big screen.
How three black women helped send John Glenn into orbit

Katherine Johnson at Nasa Langley Research Center in 1980. Photograph: Nasa

You really think that in a nation of 180 million people, that there were not white people good enough at math to do that work?


How about a kudos to the white administrators who were happy to hire "people of color" based on their abilities in an era when AA was a pale shadow of what it is today (no pun intended)

How about looking at it another way?. Neither MOST White people or the MOST of any other people in this country at the time were good enough at math to do the work. These Black women were stand outs in any crowd in any era. I am just proud that they were also Americans. Aren't YOU?

Of course most people are not qualified to do the math to do a space shot.

Yes, EVERYONE seriously involved was a "stand out".

I have pride in the accomplishments of the nation in the Space Race. I have always known that there were a lot of people who's names I did not know involved. This news tidbit changes nothing for me.

Yes, we know about the great White men who were also mathematical and literary geniuses. Their history is recorded everywhere and dominates all levels of academia. We also know the reasoning behind that phenomenon. It is integral to the mass social conditioning apparatus designed to inculcate every school child, Black, White or whatever, that White is superior and Black is inferior. Why else would such positive facts about Black cognizance be ignored? Instead , the effects of social conditioning are capitalized on and used copiously to portray Blacks as less intelligent, less ambitious and less worthy..with nothing to contribute.

Your conspiracy theory is noted. It is also at odds with the national consensus on Race of the last 60 years.

Why were three individuals among hundreds of thousands not famous? Gee, I don't know.


How many white rocket scientists can you name? 5? 10?

When wise men saw that genius is not exclusive to White people, as exhibited by these three women, a ray of hope broke through the dark clouds of hopelessness. In this case NASA hired these women because they were just as good or better mathematicians than comparable White men and could be PAID LESS.

The USA of the 1960s were not a dystopia of hopelessness.

I constructed this op with a singular purpose in mind. To uplift and bring notice to these Black women who have excelled in the sciences but have gone unheralded. Against the backdrop of negative news we hear every day , I thought this would be a welcome change. Your attempt to trivialize my efforts and to distract from the impact these revelations have made on all who read this, is a reflection on your character. My narrative was not meant for you, for I knew you and others like you can never understand what it means when the underdog rises above those who seek to keep him down.

You and your children don't lack role models in the sciences and mathematics. Social conditioning perpetuates the myth that Blacks are inferior and Whites are superior. With media perpetuating that myth many Blacks, themselves, are convinced of their "inferiority." White kids too are inculcated with the notion that Whiteness is the ultimate symbol of good, high intelligence and morality.. You then build stereotypes and use those to demonize the entire Black populace.

My aim is to counter that negativity with images and true stories of Blacks who defy your conventional expectations of them with excellence. This isn't about YOU or what you think. I'm betting there are others who are more receptive to this kind of news and relish it as much as I do! It is those white people that have walked with Blacks every step of the way toward egalitarianism.
That is my intended audience and, of course, all ambitious minorities.

If you wanted this thread to be about them, then you should have been very careful to avoid making it about Whites and how they do this, and that they did that.

YOur above post is a fine example. YOu spend more time talking about me, than you do talking about them.

You say you wanted to UPLIFT them.

Then you go on to,

accuse me of trivializing your efforts

distracting from your efforts

attack my character,

attack my understanding,

imply that I'm part of "keeping them down",

accuse me of building stereotypes,

accuse me of demonizing the entire black population,

accuse me of conventional thinking,

and accuse me of being against "egalitarianism".


If your aim was to NOT make this about me, you have failed miserably.


If you goal was to attack whites, tear down this great nation, and nurture old wounds, then you have succeeded brilliantly.

 

[katsteve2012]

Thanks for posting this JQ, and happy holidays, my brother.

I remember hearing my father talking about her back around the time that she was working there.

As you may recall from previous conversations that we have had, my father was an educator and often told me:

"There are two histories in America...the one that you learn in school and the history that the school system chooses to not teach".

Like those history books that no longer include anything about the Wright Bros, first humans to fly, to make room for Guatemalan precinct captains? And why would you post an image of a white woman at the keyboard?

First of all, I didnt post the picture, but since you are apparently irrirated by it, I will say that you should get out more.often.

There are black people who range from light skinned with straight hair to the exact opposite.

History books generally are full of information about European mathematicians, after all, the school system curriculum in America is for the most part Eurocentric and generally has portrayed black people and other minorities as savage, uneducated and dependent on white Europeans.

No, a history of mathematics will be full of information about mathematicians. The mathematicians who made mathematical history were overwhelmingly white. But in our modern Euromerica, if this historical truth is taught accurately, the curriculum is denounced as "Eurocentric" and the system, therefore, somehow racist and evil simply for doing what the system was designed to do: educate students. So we have an array of mediocrities like the OP come rushing out to fake everything up.

Mediocre blacks want a share in a racial glory regardless to whether it is accurate. Mediocre whites want to assert their moral superiority by subjecting their own ancestors to lies and obscurity. Both are played against each other by Jewish Hollywood, which is driven by its hatred of white achievement.

I don't know who is behind this latest salvo from Hollywood elevating black female nonentities at the expense of white male achievement, but it's a safe bet it is Jews, and it is a sure bet it isn't blacks. And that should tell you something.

What your post tells me is that:

A. You dislike Jews, and this type of scapegoating is what brought Hitler into power in Nazi Germany.

B. You view any acknowledged achievement by anyone other than white males in history as being at the "expense of white males" and that somehow it marginalizes their achievements.


C. You view minorities and females in general as inferior to white males.

A. So?
B. Nope. People can marvel all they want about the Egyptian pyramids or the great wall of China or the Mayan calendar, and it's no skin off my dick. White males had nothing to do with them. But if some Jew makes a movie about an obscure runaway mulatto working as a janitor in Leibniz' laboratory really coming up with calculus after hours and presents it as the truth finally revealed, I'm going to squawk.
C. Nope. But if they need to denigrate white males and falsely claim white male achievement as their own rather than go out and achieve on their own, then they are themselves acting as if they are inferior.

Ask yourself again why Jewish Hollywood produces movie after movie after movie portraying black Americans as superior noble humans victimized by thieving oppressive whites. Do you think it is because Jews have the best interests of blacks at heart?

And "squawk" is precisely all that you have done. You have not posted anything that refutes the story of these women as being the truth.

Their contribution in no way marginalizes the achievements of anyone else ESPECIALLY white males who were involved in the space program, after all, it has been "white people" who have told the story of these women, so why would they "denigrate" other white people.

One would almost think by your "squawking" that you were actually present at Nasa during that era and are butthurt because somehow credit is being stolen from you personally.

ROFLMAO.
The True Story of Hidden Figures | History | Smithsonian

 

[cnelsen]

You have not posted anything that refutes the story of these women as being the truth.

• Why isn’t Johnson mentioned in John Glenn’s John Glenn: A Memoir or Alan Shepard’s Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America’s Race to the Moon?
• Why does Charles Murray not mention her in his seminal book on the Apollo program (co-authored with Katherine Murray), Apollo: Race to the Moon?
• Why is Johnson not mentioned in Tom Wolfe’s epic The Right Stuff, documenting the sensational story of NASA’s first astronaut group, the all-white Mercury 7.
• Why, especially oddly, is Johnson not mentioned in We Could Not Fail: The First African Americans in the Space Program.
• Why was Johnson not mentioned in either Jet or Ebonymagazine, two black magazines that spent the 1960s and 1970s simultaneously lamenting the lack of blacks at NASA and celebrating any minor achievements of blacks in the space program.

(Finally, she appeared May 23, 2005 issue of Jet:

A physicist, space scientist, and mathematician, Katherine Johnson gained a minute in the national glare in 1970 when she was instrumental in formulating calculations that helped the crippled Apollo 13 return home safely.

U.S. Rep. Eddie B. Johnson Pushes Resolution To Support Black Women In Science & Technology

Curiously, the Jet article acknowledges “very little literature documents African American women and their place in science”).

• Why, given her alleged role in the Apollo 13 drama, does Johnson not appear in Jim Lovell’s autobiographical Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 (subsequently made into the Tom Hanks movie, Apollo 13).
• Why does Gene Kranz, the Flight Director of NASA famously played by Ed Harris in Apollo 13, fail to mention Katherine Johnson in his autobiography Failure is Not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond?
• 
  Why, perhaps most significantly, does Johnson not appear in Harlem Princess: The Story of Harry Delaney’s Daughter, the autobiography of Ruth Bates Harris? Harris, who took the job of Deputy Assistant Administrator for Equal opportunity for NASA in 1972, famously said, “I saw no minorities or women as astronauts. Could I help make a difference?” Harris waged a war to get more blacks involved with NASA, which was a paltry 5.6 percent non-white in 1973 versus a government agency average of 20 percent minority. [Societal Impact of Spaceflight, 2007, PDF]
• Why does Johnson not appear in Beyond Uhura: Star Trek and Other Memories, by the black actress Nichelle Nichols, who played the part of Lt. Uhura in the iconic TV series Star Trek? Nichols waged a personal crusade against the overwhelming white nature of NASA, giving a speech in 1977, “New Opportunities for the Humanization of Space,”lamenting how white the space agency was and how this was dehumanizing to nonwhites.

Many leading white liberals in the 1960s wanted to find a way to put a black into space. Edward R. Murrow wrote a letter to James E. Webb, then the Administrator of NASA reading thus:

September 21, 1961

Dear Jim,

Why don’t we put the first non-white man in space?

If your boys were to enroll and train a qualified Negro and then fly him in whatever vehicle is available, we could retell our whole space effort to the whole non-white world, which is most of it.

As ever,

Yours,

Edward R. Murrow




Just last year, after Katherine Johnson was awarded the Medal Of Freedom by President Obama, she named “West Virginian of the Year” and these strange words were written about her:

Johnson’s achievements, despite their significance, went largely unnoticed.

“No one knows that John Glenn wouldn’t fly unless Katherine Johnson checked the math,” Megan Smith, the White House chief technology officer, said in October. “It’s an amazing story, and it’s totally unknown.”

Johnson was never mentioned in the New York Times or the Washington Post before this year. She is nowhere to be found in ‘This New Ocean,’ NASA’s comprehensive internal history of Project Mercury.

Before 2015, the Charleston Gazette and Daily Mail wrote about her exactly once. The story appeared in the Gazette in 1977 to note that she had been honored by the Afro-American Historical and Cultural Museum in Philadelphia. It did not mention NASA. It was five sentences long.

“We’re in a country that sometimes we have revisionist history, and if you go look at history books, lots of times there aren’t African-Americans in there,” said Leland Melvin, a former space shuttle astronaut. “It’s so easy to just have an omission and play up the people and things that you want to make prominent.”

During the Mercury and Apollo missions, that meant playing up the stereotype of the first seven astronauts.

“Back then, you were a test pilot with a crew cut,” Melvin said. “The original seven, Life Magazine with the wives and the Corvettes — there wasn’t room for anyone else in that dialogue.”

[West Virginian of the Year: Katherine G. Johnson, Charleston Gazette Mail, by David Gutman, December 26, 2015. Link in original].

Let’s be honest: the only “revisionist” history going on right now is the push to have Americans in 2016 believe a black woman was key to NASA’s putting a man on the moon.

Minority Occupied America may not put men on the moon. But it can hype Politically Correct myths,

http://www.vdare.com/articles/hyped...-black-women-were-not-what-got-us-to-the-moon

 

[cnelsen]

I refuse to empower you at all.

Haha, don't flatter yourself, snowflake. I don't need some pathetic goodwhite to be empowered.

 

[JQPublic1]

When John Glenn became the first American in space, I thought, WOW! It must have taken top mathematical geniuses to calculate all the variables necessary to get him up and back safely.

while Glenn was the hero who risked his life. The mathematicians who crunched the numbers necessary to bring success went unheralded.



At the time I envisioned NASA as the domain of brainy White males

in white smocks with clipboards in hand. Television brought images of the control room where rows of white faces sat in front of monitors and weird looking machinery. I marveled at the seeming wizardry and silently gave credit to those White men for being mathematical geniuses.



Fifty six years later I discovered just how wrong I was. The success of Glen's historic flight depended on a female mathematician who helped with the calculations. Does that shock you? In the1960s, that women could be so deeply involved in a man's domain was astounding in and of itself. But the story of this female mathematician took on an even more incredible turn when I earned she was ... OMG,! She is BLACK!



I was floored. After all these years this story is just now surfacing. The shock was just beginning to wear off when I discovered there was not just one, there were two other Black female mathematical geniuses working for NASA at that time.



A film is being made to finally give these fine Americans their just recognition and rewards. I am chartering a bus to take as many people with me as I can to join me when in viewing it on the big screen.
How three black women helped send John Glenn into orbit

Katherine Johnson at Nasa Langley Research Center in 1980. Photograph: Nasa

Thanks for posting this JQ, and happy holidays, my brother.

I remember hearing my father talking about her back around the time that she was working there.

As you may recall from previous conversations that we have had, my father was an educator and often told me:

"There are two histories in America...the one that you learn in school and the history that the school system chooses to not teach".

Like those history books that no longer include anything about the Wright Bros, first humans to fly, to make room for Guatemalan precinct captains? And why would you post an image of a white woman at the keyboard?

As usual , the authors of American history often embellishes the accomplishments of white males and neglects the achievements of other Americans. Sometimes those embellishments are reviewed by real historical scholars and put into proper perspective. For instance:

The Wright Brothers were NOT the first humans to fly. Have you forgotten the fact that manned hot air balloons debuted half a century before the Wright's
12 second powered flight. See how gullible you are? And even THAT powered flight "achievement" was precedented by Europeans.

The photograph you see is a picture of Katherine Johnson, an African American....look closer or read the ink I provided for validation. And for those who are too offended by this revelation to go to the link..here are pictures of the other two Black female mathematical geniuses:

Mary Jackson at NASA Langley Research Centre in 1980. Photograph: Bob Nye/NASA

Dorothy Vaughan in her twenties. Photograph: Courtesy the Family of Dorothy Johnson Vaughan

Have you forgotten the fact that manned hot air balloons debuted half a century before the Wright's
12 second powered flight. See how gullible you are? And even THAT powered flight "achievement" was precedented by Europeans.



Holy shit I knew you were a fucking GOD DAMN indocterated piece of shit liberal


But this one takes the cake



Do you know the historical difference between balloons and wing flight?


My Bad I forgot about the balloon flight you can book New York to London in 2 hrs.


Stupid dumb mother fucking idiot


.

Tsk! Tsk! the key word is flight. But the op is about three Black women who contributed immensely to SPACE flight. Try to stay focused on that. Perhaps that knowledge might motivate some kid to aspire to do what these women did. Doesn't that make getting the data out there worthwhile? This story doesn't take anything away from White males, it simply shows that not all white males are like YOU. If they were we would all still be living under Jim Crow. Instead of viewing this revelation as an attack on White male-hood
let it be used as a tool for improving race relations. Positive news about Black Americans should bring joy to all Americans. But for some, like you, dehumanization is the better choice. It hurts you to realize that Blacks are just as capable as any other group and some are smarter than average Americans of any group.

 

[JQPublic1]

I refuse to empower you at all.

Haha, don't flatter yourself, snowflake. I don't need some pathetic goodwhite to be empowered.

Well, you sure sound like an insecure curmudgeon with a chip on his shoulder. Personally, I think an AAA battery has more power than you have.

 

[JQPublic1]

You have not posted anything that refutes the story of these women as being the truth.

• Why isn’t Johnson mentioned in John Glenn’s John Glenn: A Memoir or Alan Shepard’s Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America’s Race to the Moon?
• Why does Charles Murray not mention her in his seminal book on the Apollo program (co-authored with Katherine Murray), Apollo: Race to the Moon?
• Why is Johnson not mentioned in Tom Wolfe’s epic The Right Stuff, documenting the sensational story of NASA’s first astronaut group, the all-white Mercury 7.
• Why, especially oddly, is Johnson not mentioned in We Could Not Fail: The First African Americans in the Space Program.
• Why was Johnson not mentioned in either Jet or Ebonymagazine, two black magazines that spent the 1960s and 1970s simultaneously lamenting the lack of blacks at NASA and celebrating any minor achievements of blacks in the space program.

(Finally, she appeared May 23, 2005 issue of Jet:

A physicist, space scientist, and mathematician, Katherine Johnson gained a minute in the national glare in 1970 when she was instrumental in formulating calculations that helped the crippled Apollo 13 return home safely.

U.S. Rep. Eddie B. Johnson Pushes Resolution To Support Black Women In Science & Technology

Curiously, the Jet article acknowledges “very little literature documents African American women and their place in science”).

• Why, given her alleged role in the Apollo 13 drama, does Johnson not appear in Jim Lovell’s autobiographical Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 (subsequently made into the Tom Hanks movie, Apollo 13).
• Why does Gene Kranz, the Flight Director of NASA famously played by Ed Harris in Apollo 13, fail to mention Katherine Johnson in his autobiography Failure is Not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond?
• 
  Why, perhaps most significantly, does Johnson not appear in Harlem Princess: The Story of Harry Delaney’s Daughter, the autobiography of Ruth Bates Harris? Harris, who took the job of Deputy Assistant Administrator for Equal opportunity for NASA in 1972, famously said, “I saw no minorities or women as astronauts. Could I help make a difference?” Harris waged a war to get more blacks involved with NASA, which was a paltry 5.6 percent non-white in 1973 versus a government agency average of 20 percent minority. [Societal Impact of Spaceflight, 2007, PDF]
• Why does Johnson not appear in Beyond Uhura: Star Trek and Other Memories, by the black actress Nichelle Nichols, who played the part of Lt. Uhura in the iconic TV series Star Trek? Nichols waged a personal crusade against the overwhelming white nature of NASA, giving a speech in 1977, “New Opportunities for the Humanization of Space,”lamenting how white the space agency was and how this was dehumanizing to nonwhites.

Many leading white liberals in the 1960s wanted to find a way to put a black into space. Edward R. Murrow wrote a letter to James E. Webb, then the Administrator of NASA reading thus:

September 21, 1961

Dear Jim,

Why don’t we put the first non-white man in space?

If your boys were to enroll and train a qualified Negro and then fly him in whatever vehicle is available, we could retell our whole space effort to the whole non-white world, which is most of it.

As ever,

Yours,

Edward R. Murrow




Just last year, after Katherine Johnson was awarded the Medal Of Freedom by President Obama, she named “West Virginian of the Year” and these strange words were written about her:

Johnson’s achievements, despite their significance, went largely unnoticed.

“No one knows that John Glenn wouldn’t fly unless Katherine Johnson checked the math,” Megan Smith, the White House chief technology officer, said in October. “It’s an amazing story, and it’s totally unknown.”

Johnson was never mentioned in the New York Times or the Washington Post before this year. She is nowhere to be found in ‘This New Ocean,’ NASA’s comprehensive internal history of Project Mercury.

Before 2015, the Charleston Gazette and Daily Mail wrote about her exactly once. The story appeared in the Gazette in 1977 to note that she had been honored by the Afro-American Historical and Cultural Museum in Philadelphia. It did not mention NASA. It was five sentences long.

“We’re in a country that sometimes we have revisionist history, and if you go look at history books, lots of times there aren’t African-Americans in there,” said Leland Melvin, a former space shuttle astronaut. “It’s so easy to just have an omission and play up the people and things that you want to make prominent.”

During the Mercury and Apollo missions, that meant playing up the stereotype of the first seven astronauts.

“Back then, you were a test pilot with a crew cut,” Melvin said. “The original seven, Life Magazine with the wives and the Corvettes — there wasn’t room for anyone else in that dialogue.”

[West Virginian of the Year: Katherine G. Johnson, Charleston Gazette Mail, by David Gutman, December 26, 2015. Link in original].

Let’s be honest: the only “revisionist” history going on right now is the push to have Americans in 2016 believe a black woman was key to NASA’s putting a man on the moon.

Minority Occupied America may not put men on the moon. But it can hype Politically Correct myths,

http://www.vdare.com/articles/hyped...-black-women-were-not-what-got-us-to-the-moon

So you wrote all of the above to say ,WHAT? Just what are you trying to dispute? Katherine Johnson

When John Glenn became the first American in space, I thought, WOW! It must have taken top mathematical geniuses to calculate all the variables necessary to get him up and back safely.

while Glenn was the hero who risked his life. The mathematicians who crunched the numbers necessary to bring success went unheralded.



At the time I envisioned NASA as the domain of brainy White males

in white smocks with clipboards in hand. Television brought images of the control room where rows of white faces sat in front of monitors and weird looking machinery. I marveled at the seeming wizardry and silently gave credit to those White men for being mathematical geniuses.



Fifty six years later I discovered just how wrong I was. The success of Glen's historic flight depended on a female mathematician who helped with the calculations. Does that shock you? In the1960s, that women could be so deeply involved in a man's domain was astounding in and of itself. But the story of this female mathematician took on an even more incredible turn when I earned she was ... OMG,! She is BLACK!



I was floored. After all these years this story is just now surfacing. The shock was just beginning to wear off when I discovered there was not just one, there were two other Black female mathematical geniuses working for NASA at that time.



A film is being made to finally give these fine Americans their just recognition and rewards. I am chartering a bus to take as many people with me as I can to join me when in viewing it on the big screen.
How three black women helped send John Glenn into orbit

Katherine Johnson at Nasa Langley Research Center in 1980. Photograph: Nasa

Thanks for posting this JQ, and happy holidays, my brother.

I remember hearing my father talking about her back around the time that she was working there.

As you may recall from previous conversations that we have had, my father was an educator and often told me:

"There are two histories in America...the one that you learn in school and the history that the school system chooses to not teach".

Like those history books that no longer include anything about the Wright Bros, first humans to fly, to make room for Guatemalan precinct captains? And why would you post an image of a white woman at the keyboard?

First of all, I didnt post the picture, but since you are apparently irrirated by it, I will say that you should get out more.often.

There are black people who range from light skinned with straight hair to the exact opposite.

History books generally are full of information about European mathematicians, after all, the school system curriculum in America is for the most part Eurocentric and generally has portrayed black people and other minorities as savage, uneducated and dependent on white Europeans.

No, a history of mathematics will be full of information about mathematicians. The mathematicians who made mathematical history were overwhelmingly white. But in our modern Euromerica, if this historical truth is taught accurately, the curriculum is denounced as "Eurocentric" and the system, therefore, somehow racist and evil simply for doing what the system was designed to do: educate students. So we have an array of mediocrities like the OP come rushing out to fake everything up.

Mediocre blacks want a share in a racial glory regardless to whether it is accurate. Mediocre whites want to assert their moral superiority by subjecting their own ancestors to lies and obscurity. Both are played against each other by Jewish Hollywood, which is driven by its hatred of white achievement.

I don't know who is behind this latest salvo from Hollywood elevating black female nonentities at the expense of white male achievement, but it's a safe bet it is Jews, and it is a sure bet it isn't blacks. And that should tell you something.

Apparently you don't know the history of mathematics. Complex math began way before "White" people were even civilized. Even the Bible puts a Cushite named Nimrod at the center of developing civilization in Sumer and UR. I don't need to go into the African origins of KMT,do I?

 

[JQPublic1]

When John Glenn became the first American in space, I thought, WOW! It must have taken top mathematical geniuses to calculate all the variables necessary to get him up and back safely.

while Glenn was the hero who risked his life. The mathematicians who crunched the numbers necessary to bring success went unheralded.



At the time I envisioned NASA as the domain of brainy White males

in white smocks with clipboards in hand. Television brought images of the control room where rows of white faces sat in front of monitors and weird looking machinery. I marveled at the seeming wizardry and silently gave credit to those White men for being mathematical geniuses.



Fifty six years later I discovered just how wrong I was. The success of Glen's historic flight depended on a female mathematician who helped with the calculations. Does that shock you? In the1960s, that women could be so deeply involved in a man's domain was astounding in and of itself. But the story of this female mathematician took on an even more incredible turn when I earned she was ... OMG,! She is BLACK!



I was floored. After all these years this story is just now surfacing. The shock was just beginning to wear off when I discovered there was not just one, there were two other Black female mathematical geniuses working for NASA at that time.



A film is being made to finally give these fine Americans their just recognition and rewards. I am chartering a bus to take as many people with me as I can to join me when in viewing it on the big screen.
How three black women helped send John Glenn into orbit

Katherine Johnson at Nasa Langley Research Center in 1980. Photograph: Nasa

Sorry to burst you racial group orgasm, but...

http://www.vdare.com/articles/hyped...-black-women-were-not-what-got-us-to-the-moon

You can't burst anything. I refuse to empower you at all. I merely uncovered the contributions these Black women made to the space program. The revelation of their accomplishments is especially astounding considering the era in which they worked and lived. You too should celebrate these real American heroines who defied the odds and stereotypes that are still so much a part of our "social conditioning."

Fake history.

YOU wish.. Here is a video for you to heap your scorn upon:

"Langley has a post for black mathematicians." Hahahaha

Well, that was back in the day... but even so, the managers of Langley were confident enough in those Black women mathematicians to trust their calculations in plotting the earliest space flights, including those made by Sheppard AND Glenn!

 

[JQPublic1]

Thanks for posting this JQ, and happy holidays, my brother.

I remember hearing my father talking about her back around the time that she was working there.

As you may recall from previous conversations that we have had, my father was an educator and often told me:

"There are two histories in America...the one that you learn in school and the history that the school system chooses to not teach".

Like those history books that no longer include anything about the Wright Bros, first humans to fly, to make room for Guatemalan precinct captains? And why would you post an image of a white woman at the keyboard?

As usual , the authors of American history often embellishes the accomplishments of white males and neglects the achievements of other Americans. Sometimes those embellishments are reviewed by real historical scholars and put into proper perspective. For instance:

The Wright Brothers were NOT the first humans to fly. Have you forgotten the fact that manned hot air balloons debuted half a century before the Wright's
12 second powered flight. See how gullible you are? And even THAT powered flight "achievement" was precedented by Europeans.

The photograph you see is a picture of Katherine Johnson, an African American....look closer or read the ink I provided for validation. And for those who are too offended by this revelation to go to the link..here are pictures of the other two Black female mathematical geniuses:

Mary Jackson at NASA Langley Research Centre in 1980. Photograph: Bob Nye/NASA

Dorothy Vaughan in her twenties. Photograph: Courtesy the Family of Dorothy Johnson Vaughan

A hot air balloon is not flight. It's floatation caused by a lighter mass floating on a denser medium. It's displacement and follows Archimedes principle.
Archimedes' principle indicates that the upward buoyant force that is exerted on a body immersed in a fluid, whether fully or partially submerged, is equal to the weight of the fluid that the body displaces and it acts in the upward direction at the centre of mass of the displaced fluid. Archimedes' principle is a law of physics fundamental to fluid mechanics. It was formulated by Archimedes of Syracuse.[1]

Flight is defined by aerodynamic principles of lift, drag, thrust and weight.

Now who is revising history here?

Did you read the link I provided? take it up with THEM. I'd rather focus on the op. Aren't these women wonderful?

The women are a extraordinary; you, not so much. You strike me as a feel good guy who is not really concerned with the truth, but rather being politically correct. That is why at least 2 of your post in this thread had significant factual errors.

If I weren't concerned with the truth I would never have admitted that I made a factual error. I did concede that Sheppard, not Glen, was the first American launched into space. I did not concede that your denial of balloon flight as "flight" is accurate. My link and myriad other sources refer to air travel by balloon as flight. A powerful blow can cause a person to fly across a room. Your nitpicking to create a straw-man by alleging incompetence through error fails and you are on the brink of falling into your own trap.
The facts recently uncovered concerning Katherine Johnson and the contributions she and two other Black females made to NASA and our country are still valid. Nothing that You or I say here can change that!