In the late 1960s, Christine Darden was one of many women working as “human computers” at NASA’s Langley Research Center. Male engineers assigned her team to perform calculations that enabled the Apollo spaceflight missions to take humans to the moon and return them safely to Earth.
https://www.princeton.edu/news/2019/11/22/pioneering-nasa-engineer-darden-shares-her-journey-human-computer-expert-supersonic