Hidden Figures - Margot Lee Shetterly

correct order.
As powerful as ACD’s computer was,
however, the maestros of Project
Mercury would require even more
electronic horsepower for what was to
come next. At the end of 1960, NASA
purchased two IBM 7090s and installed
them in a state-of-the-art facility in
downtown Washington, DC, managed by
the Goddard Space Flight Center, a
Greenbelt, Maryland, NASA field center
opened in 1959 to focus exclusively on
space science. The agency set up a third
computer, a slightly smaller IBM 709, in
a data center in Bermuda. Together the
three computers would monitor and
analyze all aspects of the spaceflights,
from launch to splashdown.
The planned suborbital flights
presented a controlled set of challenges.