Asclepias
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It said calculated the flight trajectory. Typically they do that long before you actually go into space."What person of Black heritage played a very pivotal role in putting America on the moon?"
Katherine Johnson.
Katherine G. Johnson The HistoryMakers
"Johnson went on to join the Spacecraft Controls Branch where she calculated the flight trajectory for Alan Shepard, the first American to go into space in 1959. Johnson also verified the mathematics behind John Glenn’s orbit around the Earth in 1962 and calculated the flight trajectory for Apollo 11’s flight to the moon in 1969. She retired from NASA in 1986."
Shepard didn't go into space in '59. It was '61.