writing.
5. Katherine Johnson
Not many people knew about Katherine Johnson till after the movie Hidden Figures when hers, and two other amazing African-American women, stories were told about their work in NASA during the initial space ventures the organization. Johnson was first put with all the women who would do couples calculations and were called the ‘computers’ but was segregated and her, along with her other coloured female colleagues, were labeled as “Coloured Computers” and had to usedifferent office and
restrooms etc. She
calculated the trajectory
of the space flight of Alan
Shepard in 1961 and also
the calculated the time
when the Alan Shepard
could enter space for his Mercury Mission.
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