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Katherine Johnson

March 2, 2017

Toy company Lego to produce Women of NASA set

And their choices are truly stellar.
August 15, 2016

Hidden Figures trailer

The first trailer for the movie Hidden Figures was released recently.
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An upcoming movie, Hidden Figures, tells the story of African-American mathematicians who helped get America's space program off the ground.
December 11, 2015 in Modern Worthies

Katherine Johnson

NASA's Computer That Wore a Skirt

Katherine Johnson was a "human computer" at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (later NASA), doing the math that would get Alan Shepard, John Glenn, and Buzz Aldrin to space and back.

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