Dorothy Vaughan was a mathematician at NASA. “Dorothy Vaughan came to the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory in 1943, during the height of World War II, leaving her position as the math teacher at Robert Russa Moton High School in Farmville, Virginia, to take what she believed would be a temporary war job. Biography of Judith Resnik, Second American Woman in Space. It was on a trip to the post office during the spring of 1943 that Dorothy Vaughan spied the notice for the laundry job at Camp Pickett. Her stepmother became a driving force for Dorothy’s education, teaching her to read before she entered school, which allowed Dorothy to advance two grades. That said, Dorothy's life is devoted to investigations into the unknown, and finding the answers to the mysteries of life. Dorothy Vaughan is a strong-minded, black mathematician who joins Langley as a human computer in 1943 and then works her way up to become the organization’s first black section head.
Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson, Dorothy Vaughan, and all the ladies who worked as the 'computers' served as the brains behind launching John Glenn, … The unseen 42-page transcript was recently discovered among boxes of documents that her heirs gave to the New Hampshire Historical Society in Concord. And they did so during a time when being black and a woman limited what they could do. Biography of … While there were many hidden figures behind NASA’s early success, Dorothy Vaughan stands out.
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