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Katherine Johnson - NASA Pioneer

by , posted on 10:17 AM, February 15, 2021
Katherine Johnson was part of a group of Black women mathematicians at NASA who were instrumental in successfully getting humans into space.She recently had a spacecraft named after her.

Katherine Johnson -Mathematician, Researcher, Pioneer, Trailblazer, Presidential Medal of Freedom winner, NASA Honoree

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Northrop Grumman is proud to name the NG-15 Cygnus spacecraft after NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, a Black woman who time and again broke through barriers of gender and race.

Katherine Johnson biography.

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