The West Area Computers (short for West Area Computing Unit) were the African American women who worked as human computers at the Langley Research Center of NACA (predecessor of NASA) from 1943 through 1958. Most of their work involved reading, analyzing, and plotting data for aircraft testing, supersonic flight research, and, later, the space program.
The West Area Computers (short for West Area Computing Unit) were the African American women who worked as human computers at the Langley Research Center of NACA (predecessor of NASA) from 1943 through 1958. Most of their work involved reading, analyzing, and plotting data for aircraft testing, supersonic flight research, and, later, the space program.
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