Katherine Johnson
About this book
Meet Katherine Johnson, a brilliant mathematician who worked at NASA in the early 1950s until retiring in 1986. Katherine s unparalleled calculations (done by hand) helped plan the trajectories for NASA s Mercury and Apollo missions (including the Apollo 11 moon landing). She is said to be one of the greatest American minds of all time.
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African AmericansWomen mathematiciansMathematiciansPhysicistsAfrican American womenJuvenile literatureWomen physicistsWomenUnited states, national aeronautics and space administrationUnited states, juvenile literatureWomen, biography, juvenile literatureAfrican americans, biographyAfrican americans, biography, juvenile literature