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Katherine Johnson (1953-1986)
Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson
NASA Career: 1953-1986
Note: performed the complex calculations that enabled humans to successfully achieve space flight.
NASA Website: ‘Worked with tracking teams of manned and unmanned orbital missions. Spacecraft include the Earth
Resources Satellite, lunar orbital missions, and Apollo moon missions. Received Group Achievement Award
presented to NASA’s Lunar Spacecraft and Operations Team.” [Read More]
Article
- Buckley, Cara. “Uncovering a Tale of Rocket Science, Race and the ’60s,” New York Times, May 20, 2016.
- Human Computers: The Women in Aeronautical Research Golemba, Beverly E. Unpublished.
- McLennan, Sarah and Mary Gainer. When the Computer Wore a Skirt: Langley’s Computers, 1935-1970. NASA News & Notes. Vol 29, No 1. 2012, p.25.
Books
Websites
- “Johnson, Katherine Coleman Goble.” Contemporary Black Biography. . Encyclopedia.com. (December 12, 2016).
- “Katherine Johnson: The Girl Who Loved to Count,” – NASA, November 24, 2015
- “Katherine Johnson: A Lifetime of STEM,” – NASA, November 6, 2013
- Katherine Johnson – The National Visionary Leadership Project [National Visionary]
- Katherine G. Johnson Biography – bio.com
- Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson (b. 1918–) Hampton Mathematician – Virginia Women in History
- “Mathematician Katherine Johnson at Work,” – Mixed Race Studies
- Katherine Johnson – Wikipedia