West Area Computers

West Area Computing Unit
Other namesWest Computers, West Area Computers
Occupationhuman computers
Years active1943–1958

The West Area Computers (short for West Area Computing Unit) were the African American women who worked as human computers at the Langley Research Center of NACA (predecessor of NASA) from 1943 through 1958. Most of their work involved reading, analyzing, and plotting data for aircraft testing, supersonic flight research, and, later, the space program. In the era before digital computers, they worked by hand, one-on-one with engineers or in computing sections.

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