Her calculations proved as critical to the success of the Apollo Moon landing program and the start of the Space Shuttle program, as they did to those first steps on the country’s journey into space. She continued to work at NASA until 1986 combining her math talent with electronic computer skills.
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The book's movie adaptation stars Taraji P. and white women were segregated from black women. Even after NASA began using electronic computers, John Glenn requested that she personally recheck the calculations made by the new electronic computers before his flight aboard Friendship 7 – the mission on which he became the first American to orbit the Earth. An upcoming book and movie both entitled Hidden Figures tell the story of NASA's female African.
In a time before the electronic computers we know today, these women had the job title of “Computer.” As a Computer, Katherine calculated the trajectory for Alan Shepard, the first American in space. Katherine Johnsons name is now well known as one of NASAs hidden figures, African American women whose pioneering work was a key part of our success in. Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson and. HIDDEN FIGURES the movie, scheduled for general release on January 13, 2017, has assembled an all-star cast to bring the story of Katherine Johnson. We’ll talk to the author of Hidden Figures. The NACA had taken the unusual step of hiring women for the tedious and precise work of measuring and calculating the results of wind tunnel tests in 1935. The untold story of the black women mathematicians who helped NASA win the space race. In 1953, after years as a teacher and later as a stay-at-home mom, Katherine, an extraordinary mathematician, began working for NASA’s predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, or NACA. Based on the New York Times bestselling book and the Academy Awardnominated movie, author Margot Lee Shetterly and Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor. I counted the steps to the road, the steps up to church, the number of dishes and silverware I washed … anything that could be counted, I did.” – Katherine Johnson, NASA Mathematician, recipient of the 2015 National Medal of Freedom, our nation’s highest civilian honor
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