May 12
Last Fact-Checked: May 12, 2026 | 9 min read | History / Space | Vella Team John Glenn was already inside the capsule. The rocket was fueled
When I was younger, I thought history belonged to the people standing in front of the cameras.
The astronauts. The presidents. The men everybody already knew.
But somewhere inside NASA, a woman named Katherine Johnson sat quietly with a pencil, trying to calculate whether human beings could survive the darkness of space.
Nobody clapped for her while she was doing it.
And somehow that makes her story hit even harder.
Last Fact-Checked: May 12, 2026 | 9 min read | History / Space | Vella Team John Glenn was already inside the capsule. The rocket was fueled
