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“You tell me when and where you want it to come down, and I will tell you where and when and how to launch it.”
“Our office computed all the (rocket) trajectories,” Johnson told The Virginian-Pilot newspaper in 2012. But her work at NASA’s Langley Research Center eventually shifted to Project Mercury, the nation’s first human space program. Johnson focused on airplanes and other research at first. Signs had dictated which bathrooms the women could use. Johnson and other black women initially worked in a racially segregated computing unit in Hampton, Virginia, that wasn’t officially dissolved until NACA became NASA in 1958. Johnson was one of the “computers” who solved equations by hand during NASA’s early years and those of its precursor organization, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. Her story and her grace continue to inspire the world.” No cause was given.īridenstine tweeted that the NASA family “will never forget Katherine Johnson's courage and the milestones we could not have reached without her. NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said on Twitter that she died Monday morning. She was portrayed in the 2016 film "Hidden Figures".Johnson worked on NASA's early space mission.Katherine Johnson, NASA mathematician, dead at 101.NATIONWIDE - Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who calculated rocket trajectories and earth orbits for NASA’s early space missions and was later portrayed in the 2016 hit film “Hidden Figures,” about pioneering black female aerospace workers, has died.
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