![]() ![]() Less than a year later, the astronaut John Glenn (who would later become a U.S. ![]() Johnson correctly calculated the trajectory for the trip that saw Alan Shepard become the first American in space. She worked at the agency from 1953 until 1986. Johnson joined Langley Research Center in Hampton, as a research mathematician for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, according to her NASA biography. There, she was one of the first African Americans to enroll in the mathematics program. In her rural hometown, formal education for black students ended in the eighth grade but she went on to earn a graduate degree at West Virginia University. (Photo by Mike Pont/Getty Images for The Points Guy)īorn in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, in 1918, Johnson was always fascinated by numbers. Katherine Moore and Joylette Hylick, Johnson's daughters, speak on behalf of their mother, who received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2019 TPG Awards ceremony in New York City. Johnson Computational Research Facility at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, where she lived. In 2017, NASA dedicated a building to Johnson, called the Katherine G. In 2015 she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama. Johnson for her contributions to aeronautics. At the December 9 awards ceremony, TPG honored Mrs. Johnson received The Points Guy’s Lifetime Achievement award at the 2019 TPG Awards. The movie received three Academy Award nominations, including for Best Picture, and won Best Movie at the BET Awards. Henson portrayed Johnson, and Octavia Spencer and Janelle Monae starred as Johnson’s colleagues at NASA. Their stories, and Johnson’s, went mostly unnoticed until the 2016 movie, “Hidden Figures.” Taraji P. ![]() Related coverage: TPG honors Katherine Johnson, the woman who helped propel Americans to space “I don’t have a feeling of inferiority,” Johnson once said, according to The New York Times. The Points Guy will not share or sell your email. I would like to subscribe to The Points Guy newsletters and special email promotions. ![]()
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