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May 25, 2021 · The daughters of Katherine Johnson, the NASA mathematician in "Hidden Figures," joined TODAY to discuss her accomplishments as her memoir is released.
Feb 23, 2024 · The 2021 children’s book One Step Further: My Story of Math, the Moon, and a Lifelong Mission tells the story of Katherine Johnson, an African American woman who while living under Jim Crow in the south worked at NASA as a mathematician and helped put a man on the moon.
6 days ago · Katherine Johnson, a mathematician on early space missions who was portrayed in film “Hidden Figures,” has died, NASA reported on Feb. 24. This interview with Johnson's youngest daughter ...
In 1958, Katherine met a man named Jim Johnson. Jim respected Katherine’s work and enjoyed spending time with her daughters. They married in 1959. Meanwhile, Katherine was helping to figure out how to send an astronaut into orbit around the Earth. One of the biggest challenges was determining where the spacecraft would land.
My dad was from Jamaica and my mum was Welsh. this is a picture of them just before they got married in North Wales in 1954. I was born in 1962 and mixed race families were still very unusual, especially in the suburbs. I went to school at Tetherdown primary school in north London. I loved it.
Katherine and her husband Jim grew old together. Even in their 90s, when they both lived in an assisted living retirement community, they would ask their aides to turn their wheelchairs together so that they could give each other their traditional fist bump each night before bed. Jim died in 2019.
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Sep 18, 2024 · Katherine Johnson, American mathematician who calculated and analyzed the flight paths of many spacecraft during her more than three decades with the U.S. space program. Her work helped send astronauts to the Moon.
