&gt;&quot;Early on, when they said they wanted the capsule to come down at a certain place, they were trying to compute when it should start. I said, &#x27;Let me do it. You tell me when you want it and where you want it to land, and I&#x27;ll do it backwards and tell you when to take off.&#x27; That was my forte.&quot;<p>&gt;By 1962, when John Glenn became the first American to orbit the earth, NASA was relying more on computers.<p>&gt;&quot;You could do much more, much faster on computer,&quot; Johnson said. &quot;But when they went to computers, they called over and said, &#x27;tell her to check and see if the computer trajectory they had calculated was correct.&#x27; So I checked it and it was correct.&quot;<p>This lady is fantastic and it&#x27;s about time she gets this - absolutely deserved.