Mary Jackson Accomplishments

Everyone knows or has heard of the first time an American ‘Glenn’ orbited the earth on February 20 1962. But there were many things that happened in order for all of that to be pulled off. There were a lot of workers from NASA that put some effort into making that possible. When someone thinks of NASA, and who helped into sending the first American to orbit the earth, many of those who worked hard for this mission weren’t fully giving the recognition for it. When someone thinks about that mission many are going to think, ‘just some guys all working together for this’ but in reality it wasn’t just some guys. There were three strong women who had a big participation on making this mission possible.

One of those people or participants that participated in plan of orbiting the Earth, was Mary Jackson. Mary Jackson was born on April 9, 1921, in Hampton VA, she graduated from an all-black George P. Phenix training school. She earned a bachelor's degree from Hampton

Katherine was born on August 26,1918, in White Sulphur Spring, WV. She graduated with a B.S in mathematics, and french from West Virginia state college in 1937. Katherine had became a teacher but then got out, and she enrolled herself into a graduate math programs, but she soon decide to leave it behind to start a family with her husband so she went back to teaching when her daughters were a little older. But one day one of her relatives told her that there was an open position in the all-black West Area Computing section at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics Langley laboratory which is NASA. Katherine was hired at NASA on June 1953. Kathrine provided a whole lots of math for the 1958 on documented notes on space technology. Kathrine was then asked to help in the orbital mission for John Glenn, for which she provide a lot of math for it, and in my opinion if it wasn’t for her they wouldn’t have full made the orbit, or even get the shuttle out of the