However, her accomplishments do not end there. The first space capabilities during that time. Significant considering the United States and Russia were competing to achieve Made the 1961 Project Mercury mission possible. It was Katherine Johnson’s trajectory calculations that History often omits a key reason why Alan Shepard became theįirst American in space. Johnson’s calculations were critical to some.Often faced racial and gender discrimination due to her being the only AfricanĪmerican working there at the time. Later, Johnson was transferred to Langley’sįlight research division which was run entirely by white engineers.
Women had to eat, work and use restrooms in separate facilities. As this was during the segregation era, the This meant performingĬomplex calculations for engineers. Hiring African American women to work as ‘computers’. Later, she found a job at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (reformulated West Virginia University’s graduate school after a Supreme Court ruling. Johnson was one of three African American students to desegregate Her abilities enabled Johnson to start high school at the Road, the steps up to church, the number of dishes and silverware I washed … Katherine Johnson had an affinity for numbers at a very Here are five things you may have not known about the pioneering The African American mathematician died yesterday at the age of NASA for over three decades making some of the most significant voyages to That calculate the necessary equations to make this possible tend to be Think of when we visualise the first moon landings. From Buzz Aldrin to Neil Armstrong, these are the men we When it comes to space travel, astronauts tend to be theįace of the missions.
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