Resumen de Get the girl to check the numbers
It was Feb 1962, and John Glenn was about to go on the journey of a lifetime. Five years before, the Soviets had shot Sputnik into space and the US was lagging badly behind. American pride and pre-eminence were riding on Glenn. And Glenn was riding on an Atlas rocket--a bomb with a seat belt, its firecracker course plotted out in exquisitely precise calculations. To make it back alive, Glenn had to put his faith in the numbers. But Glenn didn't trust the numbers, he trusted the "girl" who devised them. He was talking about 43-year-old black woman Katherine Johnson. Here, Becker details why Glenn entrusted his life with Johnson.
