Dorothy Vaughan performed complex computations and analyzed data for aerospace engineers, work that was later essential to the success of the early U.S. space program. She was the first African American manager at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), which later became part of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
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