So Glenn asked engineers to “get the girl,” referring to Johnson, to run the computer equations by hand. (NASA / Getty Images file)īut astronauts weren’t keen on “putting their lives in the care of the electronic calculating machines, which were prone to hiccups and blackouts,” according to NASA. NASA space scientist and mathematician Katherine Johnson at Langley Research Center in Va., in 1966. The 1962 flight required the construction of a “worldwide communications network” linking tracking stations around the world to computers in Washington, D.C., Cape Canaveral, and Bermuda. She was best-known though for work that greatly contributed to the first American orbital spaceflight, piloted by John Glenn. She was also the first woman in the Flight Research Division to receive credit as an author of a research report for her work with Ted Skopinski on detailing the equations describing an orbital spaceflight.
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In her role there, she did trajectory analysis for Alan Shepard’s 1961 mission Freedom 7, which was America’s first human spaceflight, according to NASA. Johnson began working at NASA’s predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics’ in 1953 at the Langley laboratory in Virginia. The film also stars Octavia Spencer as mathematician Dorothy Vaughan and Janelle Monáe as engineer Mary Jackson. (Patrick Wymore/ABC via Getty Images file) Henson, Octavia Spencer at the Oscars on Feb. Janelle Monae, Katherine Johnson, Taraji P. Henson in the Oscar-nominated 2016 film Hidden Figures about trailblazing black women whose work at NASA was integral during the Space Race.
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Johnson “was an American hero and her pioneering legacy will never be forgotten,” NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine wrote on Twitter.
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Katherine Johnson, one of the NASA mathematicians depicted in the movie Hidden Figures, died Monday, the administrator of NASA said.