Well done on your amazing achievements with your writing. The film Hidden Figures told of the story of three African American mathematicians who had a pivotal role at NASA in putting a man into orbit. The myrtle tree you gave us all those years ago continues to grow beautifully in our garden. ( I even took a photo) Somehow, the book was miraculously kept dry when everything else got soaked. NASA History Katherine Johnson: The Girl Who Loved to Count NASA Mathematician, Recipient of Nations Highest Civilian Honor Watch on NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson receives nation's highest civilian honor. Katherine Johnson, née Katherine Coleman, also known as (193956) Katherine Goble, (born August 26, 1918, White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, U.S.), American mathematician who calculated and analyzed the flight paths of many spacecraft during her more than three decades with the U.S. I thought you would have loved knowing that your writing was being immensely appreciated. It was highly recommended to her as THE book to buy and take away into the wilderness for a few days. My dear friend was completely lost in the pages and non communicative after dinner! We didn’t mind though, she’s a busy mum and it was the first book she had read in ages. It bucketed down with rain…lo…! With the dwindling daylight hours, it was either playing cards or early to bed to read a good book (that is if you were prepared to carry one and one of my friends did!) I took a photo of your book ‘The Better Son’ being read, re read and passed on…. I just did the Overland Track with a couple of girlfriends. A film based on the book was also released in 2016.I’m not on Facebook so I will assume that you will get this message. That year Margot Lee Shetterly published Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race, about the West Computers, including Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson. Johnson Computational Research Facility, after her. In 2016 NASA named a building, the Katherine G. ![]() ![]() Johnson received numerous awards and honours for her work, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom (2015). Johnson later worked on the space shuttle program. Johnson was also part of the team that calculated where and when to launch the rocket for the Apollo 11 mission of 1969, which sent the first three men to the Moon. Glenn subsequently made history aboard Friendship 7, becoming the first U.S. Women in Science and Technology: Katherine JohnsonThe Story of a NASA Mathematician, Grades 1-3 Interactive Book With Illustrations, Vocabulary, Extension. The following year, at the request of John Glenn, Johnson verified that the electronic computer had planned his flight correctly. In 1961 she calculated the path for Freedom 7, the spacecraft that put the first U.S astronaut in space, Alan B. Johnson also played an important role in NASA’s Mercury program (1961–63) of manned spaceflights. Johnson authored or coauthored 26 research reports during her career. President Barack Obama awarded Katherine Johnson the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015 and her incredible life inspired the Oscar-nominated film Hidden. ![]() It was the first time a woman in her division received credit as an author of a research report. In 1960 she coauthored a paper with one of the group’s engineers about calculations for placing a spacecraft into orbit. That changed in 1958 when NACA was incorporated into the newly formed National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which banned segregation.Īt NASA Johnson was a member of the Space Task Group. During this time, NACA was segregated, and the West Computers had to use separate bathrooms and dining facilities. The women, known as the West Computers, analyzed test data and provided mathematical computations that were essential to the success of the early U.S. ![]() In 1953 she began working at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)’s West Area Computing unit, a group of African American women who manually performed complex mathematical calculations for the program’s engineers.
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