#PICTURES KATHERINE JOHNSON NASA MOVIE#
#PICTURES KATHERINE JOHNSON NASA VERIFICATION#

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#PICTURES KATHERINE JOHNSON NASA MOVIE#

Recognition may have come later than it should have and it shouldnвЂ™t have depended on a book and movie to get there, but Katherine Johnson and the trailblazing black women of NASAвЂ™s early years are hidden no more. Katherine Johnson, Nasa mathematician portrayed in Hidden Figures, dies at 101 Johnson overcame racial and gender-based discrimination to become an integral part of NasaвЂ™s work in space exploration. Katherine JohnsonвЂ™s story was made famous in the bestselling book and Oscar-nominated film Hidden Figures. She worked on many of NASAвЂ™s biggest projects including the Apollo 11 mission that landed the first men on the moon. Johnson Computational Research Facility in 2016. In the early 1950s, Katherine was thrilled to join the organization that would become NASA. Katherine Johnson also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015. Katherine Johnson retired from NASA in 1986, but received many awards and honours for her work, NASA even named a building Katherine G. When Katherine Johnson retired from NASA in 1986, she capped off an astonishing career as one of the most invaluable computers in the history of the agency.

#PICTURES KATHERINE JOHNSON NASA VERIFICATION#

Last year, when she was a whopping 100 years old, NASA honored her by reintroducing a facility in her home state of West Virginia as the Katherine Johnson Independent Verification and Validation Facility. Katherine Johnson worked for NASA for over 30 years before retiring in 1986. She also worked on the space shuttle and Earth Resources Satellite. Glenn wasnвЂ™t keen on putting his life in the hands of the computers that would be used to handle the mission on Earth, and wanted Katherine Johnson to check all the equations by hand to give him confidence they were right. The NASA website hosts a large number of images from the Soviet/Russian space agency, and other non-American space agencies.These are not necessarily in the public domain. She also contributed to AmericaвЂ™s first orbital spaceflight piloted by John Glenn. Warnings: Use of NASA logos, insignia and emblems is restricted per U.S. Katherine Johnson did trajectory analysis for AmericaвЂ™s first human spaceflight, Alan ShepardвЂ™s mission Freedom 7 in 1961. There she used her skills at math to help man begin the ascent to the final frontier.

After graduating from college and working as a public school teacher, Johnson was hired by NASAвЂ™s predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, in 1953 to work at the Langley Laboratory in Virginia. And Katherine JohnsonвЂ™s contributions were significant. Katherine Johnson, the mathematical genius responsible for the safe homecoming of NASAвЂ™s Apollo 13 mission to the moon, is celebrated in this storybook about the young counting fanatic that grew up to greatness, one number at a time.

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