But first, he insisted that Katherine ... Apollo lunar lander with the command module in lunar orbit. Her work didn’t end there. She also helped with contingency procedures for Apollo 13 when ...

LEWISBURG, WV (WVNS) – Katherine Johnson was born on August 26th, 1918, in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. Back at that time, Greenbrier County did not offer public schooling for African ...

Katherine Johnson's pioneering contributions to the Space Race were highlighted in the film Hidden Figures, where she was played by Taraji P. Henson Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the ...

Former NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson is seen after President ... s orbit (first American to orbit the earth), and the 1969 Apollo 11 trajectory to the moon. In her later NASA career, Johnson ...

My name is Katherine Johnson. I am a mathematician for NASA ... (Yuri Gagarin), and the first successful manned moon landing (Apollo 11). The ‘space race’ became symbolic of the ideological ...