Annie Easley: The NASA human computer who helped build the Centaur rocket
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Monisha Ravisetti
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This article honors Annie Easley, a Black female human computer at NASA's Glenn Research Center, on Juneteenth 2026. It highlights her contributions to the Centaur upper-stage rocket program and her role as a trailblazer in STEM, while contextualizing her achievements within the broader history of emancipation and the ongoing struggle against racism and segregation in America.
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Though the Civil War ended in April of 1865, it wasn't until June 19 that same year when Union soldiers officially enforced the law that all enslaved people would be free.
But the end of slavery was only the beginning of the challenges soon to follow; for one, segregation between Black and white people in the U.S., both systemic and informal, persisted for years.
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