Katherine Johnson, NASA mathematician portrayed in ‘Hidden Figures,’ has died

February 24, 2020
Technology

NASA says Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who worked on NASA’s early space missions and was portrayed in a film Hidden Figures, about pioneering black womanlike aerospace workers, has died.

In a Monday morning tweet, a space group pronounced it celebrates her 101 years of life and her bequest of value and violation down secular and amicable barriers.

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Johnson was one of a supposed “computers” who distributed rocket trajectories and earth orbits by palm during NASA’s early years.

Until 1958, Johnson and other black women worked in a racially segregated computing section during what is now called Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. Their work was a concentration of a Oscar-nominated 2016 film.

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In 1961, Johnson worked on a initial goal to lift an American into space. In 1962, she accurate mechanism calculations that plotted John Glenn’s earth orbits.

At age 97, Johnson perceived a Presidential Medal of Freedom, a nation’s top municipal honour.