The GENIUS Woman Who SAVED NASA's Mission #shorts #movie #respect

Added: 2026-06-03

[00:00:00]I like to get a jump [music] on John Glenn's trajectory.

[00:00:02]>> Do you have any idea what you're asking?

[00:00:04]>> An orbital launch with an Atlas [music] rocket is going to take time.

[00:00:08]>> Is there a problem?

[00:00:09]>> Mr. Harrison, I was wondering >> Uh-huh, well, I've been wondering my whole life, so you just [music] spit it out.

[00:00:15]>> Well, sir, I would like to get a jump on John Glenn's [music] trajectory.

[00:00:22]>> This isn't about plugging in numbers, it's about inventing the math. And I think you and I talked about that, [music] right? Doesn't exist.

[00:00:27]>> I can do it, sir.

[00:00:28]>> Do you have any idea how exacting these [music] calculations have to be?

[00:00:32]>> It's like shooting a sawed-off shotgun from a thousand feet and getting that one BB through a hole so tiny you can't even [music] see it. I'm an excellent shot, sir.

[00:00:39]>> How about Kristen's numbers, then?

[00:00:41]>> They've been [music] spot-on.

[00:00:43]They've Glenn's orbit to go.

[00:00:44]>> The problem is when the capsule moves from an elliptical orbit to a parabolical orbit.

[00:00:50]There's no mathematical formula [music] for that.

[00:00:53]Cuz we can calculate launch and landing, but without this conversion, the capsule stays in orbit. We can't bring it back home.

[00:00:59]>> Maybe we're thinking about this all wrong.

[00:01:01]>> How's that?

[00:01:02]>> Maybe it's not new math at [music] all.

[00:01:04]>> It could be old math. Something that looks at the problem numerically and not theoretically.

[00:01:09]Math is always dependable. Euler's method.

[00:01:12]>> Euler's method?

[00:01:13]>> Yes.

[00:01:14]>> That's ancient.

[00:01:16]>> But it works.

[00:01:18]>> That's it.