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Human Computer
Date: 01.01.1960
Melba Roy headed a group of NASA mathematicians, known as "computers," who tracked early Echo satellites in Earth orbit. Roy's computations helped produce the orbital element timetables by which millions saw the satellite from Earth as it passed overhead.

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