All Human Computers, Mathematicians and Software Pioneers

Creola Katherine Johnson (née Coleman, previously Goble; August 26, 1918, February 24, 2020) was an American mathematician and human computer whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S.

Margaret Elaine Hamilton (née Heafield; born August 17, 1936) is an American computer scientist.

Dorothy Jean Johnson Vaughan (September 20, 1910, November 10, 2008) was an American mathematician, human computer, computer programmer and schoolteacher who worked for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), and NASA, at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia.

Mary Jackson (née Winston; April 9, 1921, February 11, 2005) was an American aerospace engineer and mathematician at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), which in 1958 was succeeded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

Annie Jean Easley (April 23, 1933, June 25, 2011) was an African American computer scientist who contributed significantly to the beginning iterations of NASA's rocket technologies.

Melba Roy Mouton (April 28, 1929, June 25, 1990) was an African American mathematician who served as Assistant Chief of Research Programs at NASA's Trajectory and Geodynamics Division in the 1960s and headed a group of NASA mathematicians called "computers".

began her career as a computer operator

began her career with the laboratory as a human computer