Who is the most underrated figure in the space race?

Some of these people are on the mission patches and some never left the ground. Recognition and contribution came apart badly here.

1. 1
   Katherine Johnson

   Calculated the trajectories for the first American crewed flights, and checked the computer's numbers for John Glenn.
   1000pts
2. 2
   John Houbolt

   Fought his own agency for lunar orbit rendezvous, the approach that made a 1969 landing possible.
   642pts
3. 3
   Valentina Tereshkova

   The first woman in space, in 1963, twenty years before any American woman flew.
   569pts
4. 4
   Sergei Korolev

   Designed Sputnik, Vostok and the R-7, and was kept anonymous by the Soviet state until after his death.
   568pts
5. 5
   Dorothy Vaughan

   Ran NASA's segregated computing group and taught herself Fortran to keep her staff employed when machines arrived.
   481pts
6. 6
   Frances Northcutt

   The first woman engineer in Mission Control, who worked on the return-to-Earth trajectories used by Apollo 13.
   374pts
7. 7
   Charlie Duke

   The voice from Mission Control during the Apollo 11 landing, who later walked on the Moon himself on Apollo 16.
   374pts
8. 8
   Wernher von Braun's Team at Marshall

   The Huntsville engineers who turned the Saturn V from drawings into a rocket that never failed a crew.
   374pts
9. 9
   Margaret Hamilton

   Led the team that wrote the Apollo onboard flight software, and coined the term software engineering.
   240pts
10. 10
    Jack Garman

    The 24-year-old engineer who told Mission Control to ignore the 1202 alarm during Apollo 11's descent.
    240pts
11. 11
    Michael Collins

    Flew Apollo 11 and stayed in lunar orbit alone while his two crewmates took the steps everyone remembers.
    240pts
12. 12
    Bill Anders

    Took Earthrise from Apollo 8, one of the most reproduced photographs ever made, and rarely gets named for it.
    240pts