Clyde Foster

Biography

Clyde Foster (November 21, 1931 – March 6, 2017) was an American mathematician and NASA official, mayor, educator and education administrator. He worked for the Army Ballistic Missile Agency (which became NASA), from 1955 to 1986; working originally as a "human computer" and eventually as head of Equal Employment Opportunity at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Throughout the 1960s, he got more Black people NASA jobs, advanced the education of more Black computer programming students and cleared the path toward equality more enduringly than any other Black NASA employee.

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