The Cherokee Mathematician Who Helped Design America’s Space Age – While Much Of Her Work Remained Secret
Mary Ross was one of the people working on those problems.
The Handbook That Mars And Venus Required
The most concrete and well-documented example of her work in this area is a technical publication known as the NASA Space Flight Handbooks, specifically the Planetary Flight Handbook, produced in the early 1960s.
The Planetary Flight Handbook was a serious technical document addressed to a serious technical problem: how, mathematically, would you actually plan a mission to another planet?
What were the specific calculations an engineer would need to perform?
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