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Today's Black American (Freedmen) inventor or innovator is Melba Mouton. Melba Mouton was hired by NASA shortly after the agency formed. Mouton was a head mathematician who lead a team of "human computers," who tracked Echo 1 and Echo 2 satellites. Echo 1 satellite was used in the first satellite voice transmission in history, and it would lead to the development of satellite global networks.
Melba Mouton then became a head programmer of a team who coded computer programs used to calculate spacecraft locations and trajectories, giving NASA the ability to track spacecraft while in orbit.
Fun fact, NASA named a mountain on the moon after her "Mons Mouton."

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