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Originally Posted by stomachmonkey
John Glenn did actually ask for "the girl" to check and verify the data pumped out by the IBM before he would fly.
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Maybe, but probably not. Why didn't he ever mention it in his book.
The general idea of a single person being the go-no go determination flies in the face of everything NASA did, especially if it is asking a person who does calculations, not the person who actually DEVELOPED THE EQUATIONS
Those types of calculations were done by teams of people, and took lots of time.
There were a lot of unsung heroes in the space program, this movie, like most, mixes a lot of interpretation and politics into the "facts"