NASA's Human Computer: The Mathematician Behind The Moon Landing | Outlier | Progress

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Witness the extraordinary journey of Katherine Johnson, a mathematical prodigy whose calculations shaped the course of the United States Space Program. From counting steps to charting trajectories, Johnson's brilliance knew no bounds. Despite facing segregation and gender bias, her relentless pursuit of knowledge propelled her to become NASA's indispensable "human computer." Her groundbreaking work ensured the success of historic missions like Apollo 11 and saved lives during crises like Apollo 13.
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@ximalas Месяц назад

“I still like to learn,” what a wonderful attitude.

@muzikizfun Месяц назад

That is true of truly intelligent people. The great geniuses like Newton, DaVinci, Einstein, Hawkins, etc, are known for their love and thirst to continue learning!

@harleyenjoytheride1324 24 дня назад

I would love to have been a student in this woman’s classroom. She was and still is an inspiration to many of us who continues to enjoy the many challenges of learning. Rest in peace beautiful lady because your love of learning will live on forever.

@mercerconsulting9728 Месяц назад

Every so often a person like this comes along, and she's a true godsend. I have only the greatest respect for her.

@RayLabs Месяц назад

Thank you for putting this together. After watching Hidden Figures I wanted to learn more about this amazing Lady. Now I feel I have a better understanding of her. Thanks.

@friendlyone2706 28 дней назад

The book Hidden Figures was more honest & more interesting & inspiring than the movie.

@lewismingledorff6417 26 дней назад

Truly a heroic person as well as an intellectual one. A powerful and beautiful soul. I am a retired commercial pilot thankful for her work. Rest in Peace, Ms. Johnson.

@RottenPoliticians День назад

So, we went to moon? LOL

@terriecotham1567 14 дней назад

Thanks to all who helped put this together from those who provide the funs. To those sweeping the floors What an amazing lady one we should all be so lucky to know or work with. Just an amazing lady

@kermitefrog64 24 дня назад

I watched the movie Hidden Figures with my wife and mother in law 6 times. This was an incredible movie and shows as a human race we have a reflection of our Creators genius among us.

@tercioannunciado1710 22 дня назад

Amazing what she did, despite all difficulties, a role model to be followed

@RottenPoliticians День назад

MOON WAS A HOAX...A DEMONIC FLAT OUT LIE. NASA OWES US ALL A REFUND FOR STOLEN MONEY...EVEN YOU AND YOUR FAMILY. C'MON MAN...

@tjmcguire9417 Месяц назад

"Katherine as an African American Woman". Please shut up. Skin colour does not matter. She was an incredible mathematician and scientist. What a brillinat mind and what incredible work. She is literally responsible for putting humanity on the moon. All else is trivial.

@bazsnell3178 16 дней назад

Exactly. She MIGHT have been from ANY ethnic background in America. It really doesn't matter in the slightest. She became a mathematician and that's all that need to be said.

@charlesthomas8450 13 дней назад

‘Literally’ ? Hilarious. Plus, there were multiplied thousands of mathematicians, yes-including this fine lady, who helped put man on the moon.

@muzikizfun Месяц назад

She was a great lady, and above all, she did it her way with an abundance of class.

@beakytwitch7905 Месяц назад

Thank you so much for presenting this fantastic documentary. The maths looks terrifying, yet at the same time fascinating - have always had questions in my mind about orbital mechanics. I hope that Katherine's papers become available for anybody who is interested to be easily able to obtain and study them. ❤😊

@JustAnotherSusieQ 4 дня назад

I teach at West Virginia State University, a HBCU, and Ms Johnson’s Alma mater and just outside my building is a beautiful statue of her surrounded by benches and flowers. A great tribute

@randygilmour Месяц назад

All the formula’s, equations that were programmed into the new IBM computers were her calculations. A lot of engineers wrote a lot of papers that were all Kathrine’s work and road her coat tails throughout their careers.

@hetrodoxlysonov-wh9oo 13 дней назад

Do you have a link to this information, thanks.

@ande100 Месяц назад

What a remarkable woman!

@barracuda7018 Месяц назад

Humble and decent...

@cestmoi1262 Месяц назад

What a profound person, Catherine Johnson, who had to overcome so much prejudice --- but she did. We bought our first color tv (24 in.) to watch the moon landing which happened in the middle of the night (if I remember correctly).

@smarthome2660 Месяц назад

Same here but it happened at about 8pm EST -5GMT which was my bed time, but my dad let me stay up a while. I was 9, & right then I wanted to be an astronaut.

@jeremytoney9367 Месяц назад

The idea that people can achieve massive amounts of things in their lives is one that I wholeheartedly agree with, and I can tell you that in this stage there are too many people that want to beat down those who they think are what they should be yet I see a person like Catherine Johnson achieving levels of capability that allowed us to get to the moon and so I know that the prejudice that still is in the world today is What came out of people on their children before my time. Catherine Johnson was able to accomplish something the year. I graduated high school yet. I didn’t hear her name until after I was over 40 years old and wonder what the difference might’ve been had I known her and her story while I was still a child. What accomplishments can be done is one of those things that anyone should be able to do and I hope that one day sooner or later we can do it together This is what her story tells me and this is what I hope that we in the United States can learn from.

@cestmoi1262 Месяц назад

Why are you ruining a fantastic presentation with the BACKGROUND music being so LOUD in the beginning. Doesn't anybody ever listen to the final product???

@mikemraz8569 28 дней назад

The loud music is overpowering the voice 😩

@michaeltrimmer8899 25 дней назад

It's so annoying you can hardly listen to the dialogue they do this all the time what do they think this noise achieves

@telisiabrown2858 14 дней назад

No sound

@65gtotrips Месяц назад

What’s so tragic and maddening is she didn’t receive the recognition she deserved until some 20-30 and even 50 years later.

@kathrynleaser5093 День назад

Thank you Katherine G Johnson. You are truly an amazing person. The world was a better place with you in it. RIP gone but never forgotten. ❤😊

@BlueInk912 5 дней назад

Respect! What a gifted family of remarkable characters nurturing this star in their midst.

@humbledriver2536 14 дней назад

Yes people and the United States government were fearful that the Soviets would have satellites that could send Atomic missiles on to the United States not unlike what the United States did to Japan. It's almost like we can dish it out but we can't take it. And thank you for all your contributions you remarkable woman Mrs Johnson

@hetrodoxlysonov-wh9oo 13 дней назад

Satellites weren't needed, the government gave the task to the British to see if they could break through the air defences, four out of 5 bombers simulated dropping nuclear bombs on US cities including the capital all but one bomber returned home, the 5th was intercepted by US fighters.

@seniorsurveyor Месяц назад

An amazing...inspiring....true life story.

@glencrandall7051 28 дней назад

An outstanding woman and an outstanding lifetime.👍👍👍👍

@HypnoPol1499 28 дней назад

What a mind-boggling brain!

@rodpettet2819 7 дней назад

An incredible woman. What more can be said.

@user-to9fw1wv9l Месяц назад

Mom and Dad came to America to give us an opportunity to be able to become successful through hard work. Their sacrificial love through working long hours just to send us to college, we can never repay them back. I believe in giving back to this country and the opportunity it provides for us. Freedom is not free we have to protect our freedom, our Constitutional foundation for the next generation. God Bless everyone and have a blessed life. 🙏🙏🙏

@CR-cd3bx 7 часов назад

Great documentary!!!!

@fostercathead Месяц назад

Amazing story!

@billenright2788 Месяц назад

truly amazing. what nice,and tough, lady.

@ronz101 Месяц назад

Kudos. Have problems balancing my check register. 🎉

@bill-8794 Месяц назад

Awesome ❤

@sinatra7407 13 дней назад

An amazing story.

@vanessaschofield7927 11 дней назад

wow and extraordinary great lady thankyou for all you have done

@Fearthetoby143 Месяц назад

Background music is unbearable 🤬

@rodgerrodger1839 Месяц назад

Do you have issues? I had to play the documentary back to even notice the piano music that was being used in the film. I think you have other deep-seated problems. The music isn't that loud. Get a grip on yourself.

@mothercomet 7 дней назад

I also count steps. Just something I do. I understand her.

@ClausB252 Месяц назад

Nice documentary! Shame that some clips are stretched wide. No excuse for that these days.

@65gtotrips Месяц назад

@20:46 that engineer looked to be no other than Chris Kraft

@kennethbethany5078 15 дней назад

Mr Ted Skopinski I have all the respect for you. KATHRINE JOHNSON & the final report!!

@andrewmaina9707 12 дней назад

What a life 👏, amazing lady.

@SSNewberry 29 дней назад

No, many problems do not have a solution or many solutions. Katherine Johnson was a genius. Her presenters here have not gotten the basic Axioms down.

@Roosevalt5 Месяц назад

A true hero, an overcome.

@emzywillrich7243 День назад

Katherine Johnson was an extraordinary woman.

@user-qf5bo2qh5s 20 дней назад

What a wonderful lady....

@tjmcguire9417 Месяц назад

So excellent. Thank you. The narrator sounds like Michael Dorn. (Think Worf/Star Trek TNG) Y/N? If not....who is it?

@jake-ps3bq 21 день назад

What a great lady. It is a shame I had to learn about her in a movie.

@ewkerman4185 Месяц назад

20:48 the irony is that Christopher Kraft, who took credit for her work refused to let african americans pilots be part of the program

@DavidEricNemeth 8 дней назад

If anybody knows the person complain about the music, please tell the person music is math, today's music would fall under the theories of chaos, which analyzed is several trigonometric "problems" occuring at the same time; separated a mathematician finds symmetry 😁😁😁😁

@CR-cd3bx 8 часов назад

The music is not necessary!

@GeoCalifornian 21 день назад

I love what this woman did for our manned space program… I never watched that Hollywood movie about Katherine because they always add sensationalism and outright falsehoods just to make a slick motion picture; you never know what’s true or what are outright fabrications.

@GH-oi2jf 29 дней назад

The word "forte" is pronounced like "fort." The word "forté" is a different word, a musical term.

@dougholliday467 10 дней назад

Pickey, pickey; and pickey.

@PlanParadigms Месяц назад

Worked on the other space program

@mannyricketson4517 22 дня назад

I'm thinking she should lead nasa cause you would never outsource cause she made the right components to make the computer that ran the whole projects for nasa

@65gtotrips Месяц назад

The fact that most of the space program was based in the South, where racism was rampant, is the environment in which she courageously triumphed. Not only that, but it was the parallel of being within the height of the time of the Civil Rights Movement.

@francoisfletcher8405 15 дней назад

🌹💙👍🌹💙

@tjmcguire9417 Месяц назад

An incomparable person was she. I have to ask, are you all so non-understanding that men stood up for her? They got her published and heard and recognized. They believed in her. Without those good guys == she and her compatriots would have lived in a vacuum forever.... Men are GOOD. Also. White engineers. That denigrates no one. Good people doing great work in space. Katherine was superlative/

@mtang65 Месяц назад

I went on a date with a pretty lady mathematician, all she wanted to talk about was an X.

@edwardmartin243 26 дней назад

@JosephDemery-qz7lo 14 дней назад

So they landed on the moon with 30 seconds of fuel remaining. How did they return?

@dougholliday467 10 дней назад

Well, simply put, that 30 seconds of blast was enough to send it on it's way. With little gravity on the moon, BOOM, let's meet up and laugh about it...... 🤣👀

@dandemery8227 10 дней назад

They said they lost the technology to return to the moon... At 1/4 gravity, you still need a few thousand metric tons of fuel. Maybe the people already there assisted with fuel / kicked the humans out. FYI Trump put NASA in the military but it has always been a part of the military. I prefer when the government lies to the general public. It helps you get in bed and go back to sleep

@sandytooks 3 дня назад

The descent stage had the descent engine with it's own fuel tanks. The descent stage was was also the launch platform for the ascent stage with the ascent engine and it's own fuel tank. The descent stage with it's 30 seconds of fuel remained at the landing site. The much lighter ascent stage was left to crash back on the moon after the astronauts returned to the command module.

@BillBacic-yl3tr 24 дня назад

Why did you ruin this presentation with awful audio?!

@DavidEricNemeth 8 дней назад

There is another discriminated group of people cannot get jobs at NASA, and the National Laboratories ( ex.: Los Alamos and Sandia). Jobs that have vocational technical requirements in the private world (ex. Maintenance Mechanic) you have to have a baccalaureate degree in engineering for a job at NASA, Sandia, and businesses have contracts with NASA. I know from experience, a job Oak Industries gave me only needed high school diploma; got terminated because of a female coworker should went to California become the next Farah Fawcett 👏👏👏

@benzminibusdoc Месяц назад

Unfortunately I couldn't follow along due to the pesky loud piano

@BeachGramps3361 Месяц назад

not live

@sonnydelight5737 13 дней назад

I guess the other 40+ white women that was on this team of human computers are going to have to get a tan to be recognized.

@harrykuehn2421 Месяц назад

That's just stupid financially and economically because of the depression and even into the War Years. Limited work for women given the hours men worked and by way there was no such thing as child care in late 1930s and 40s. Duh!

@charlesthomas8450 23 дня назад

This must be clickbait for a title to suggest that any one person was the mathematician of the moon landing- utter nonsense.

@peterdollins3610 16 дней назад

These creepy US documentary voices that drawl out such an attitude of concealed patronising hate for their subjects just make my skin crawl. Impossible to listen to unless you're already conditioned to them. Really not convinced the American revolution was such a great thing after all. Certainly not good for the Indian Tribes.