In 2015, at age 97, Katherine Johnson added another extraordinary achievement to her long list: President Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America’s highest civilian honor. “I loved going to work every single day,” she says. In 1989, she married Dennis Hopper, with whom she had a son, Henry. From a young age, she exhibited a remarkable talent for mathematics and skipped. She retired in 1986, after thirty-three years at Langley. Actress, former ballet dancer and choreographer Katherine LaNasa was born in New Orleans, Louisiana and originally trained as a ballet dancer, but had attended the North Carolina School of Arts, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, as well as the Neighbourhood Playhouse in New York. She was one of a group of women human computers who worked in calculations at NASA and its predeces- sor, the National Advisory Committee for. Katherine Johnson was born in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, in 1918.
She also worked on the Space Shuttle and the Earth Resources Satellite, and authored or coauthored 26 research reports. When asked to name her greatest contribution to space exploration, Katherine Johnson talks about the calculations that helped synch Project Apollo’s Lunar Lander with the moon-orbiting Command and Service Module. The informational 2-day outreach event for high school girls from 150 schools addressed students’ questions about the field. In October 1964, Johnson attended a symposium on American Women in Science and Engineering sponsored by the the MIT Association of Women Students. Johnson was the physicist and mathematician whose calculations were critical to NASA missions sending astronauts into orbit and to the moon and. She was born in White Sulphur Springs in West.
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First Lady Michelle Obama Hosts Star-Studded Screening of 'Hidden Figures' at the White House. belated fame through the movie Hidden Figures, was Katherine G. Her work was essential for the success of several NASA missions. Katherine Johnson, NASA Mathematician and 'Hidden Figures' Inspiration, Dies at 101. Born in White Sulphur Springs, Katherine Coleman Johnson was one of the first Black female engineers at NASA and her pioneering work on John Glenn’s orbital mission in 1962 consolidated her reputation as an outstanding mathematician.
Johnsonwas the physicist and mathematician whose calculations were critical to NASA missions sending astronauts into orbit and to the moon and whose story is chronicled in Margot Lee Shetterly’s Hidden Figures. Katherine Johnson was an American mathematician known for her work in orbital mechanics at NASA.
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