This article is part of the NASA Knows (Grades K-4) series. In 2016, a building at NASA's Langley Research Center in Virginia was named in honor of Katherine Johnson. 50+ Iconic Katherine Johnson Quotes About Math & Racism Apby QWM Katherine Johnson Quotes: Widely regarded as one of the most brilliant and acknowledged American Mathematicians, Katherine Johnson is the person whose calculation of Orbital Mechanics was used by NASA to successfully send the first U. It’s also that they threw themselves into their studies with fervour, working hard to become astronauts: they were physicists and engineers and pilots and doctors – and that was before they even got into orbit. NASA research mathematician Katherine Johnson is photographed at her desk at Langley Research Center in 1966.
However, if there’s one thing women who work in space, have flown to space and who inspire the rest of us to reach beyond the stars have shown us, it’s that they persisted, breaking barriers and proving nay-sayers wrong, time and time again. READ MORE: Only 5% of the UK’s pilots are female, but why? In 1962, as NASA prepared for the orbital mission of John Glenn, Katherine Johnson was called upon and John Glenn said get the girl (Katherine Johnson) to run. While I was working at NASA I was not always treated with equal respect as the white males were, I proved to so many people that, black or white, we all have. Katherine Johnson was an American mathematician who calculated and analyzed the flight paths of many spacecraft during her more than three decades as a NASA. I counted the steps to the road, the steps up to church, the number of dishes and silverware I washed anything that could be counted, I did. However, we know the path still isn’t straightforward for females wanting to go into space: NASA revealed as much earlier in 2019, when the first all-female spacewalk with Christina Koch and Anne McClain was cancelled – embarrassingly, it was due to a lack of proper-fitting female astronaut attire.
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