24, 2015, Katherine Johnson received the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House. When Katherine Johnson’s genius in analytical geometry was needed, she was transferred from West Computing to the Space Task Group, an all white, male group of engineers and mathematicians charged with plotting the trajectory to put John Glenn into orbit in 1962 and astronauts on the moon in 1969. The girls’ work environment mirrored the social injustices of the 1950s and 1960s with Jim Crow laws mandating separate bathrooms, drinking fountains, and lunch rooms for the computers working in West Computing. The girls in the “East Area Computing Unit” were Caucasians who worked in a different building, a world away in so many ways. The girls worked together in the “West Area Computing Unit” and individually were known as computers. Katherine Johnson at her desk in the Space Task Group (Photo: NASA) The facts have been lost to history since no official records remain of all African American, female mathematicians who worked at NASA at that time. They possibly represent so many women because the exact number will never be known. Octavia has been nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Dorothy.īut these three women represent possibly more than one thousand African American female mathematicians who were employed by NASA as the United States and the Soviet Union went brain-for-brain competing to dominate space during the Cold War.
KATHERINE JOHNSON NASA MOVIE MOVIE
In the movie released in December 2016, the three women are played by Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, and Taraji Henson respectively. 11, 2016 at the movie premiereĭorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Katherine Goble Johnson are the three main characters in the book, written by Margot Lee Shetterly and published in 2016. Meet three of these amazing human computers in Hidden Figures, a book by Margot Lee Shetterly that was made into a movie (PG) in 2016. In 1969, they helped calculate the trajectory for Apollo 11 astronauts to land on the moon, the first humans to do so. Their exceptional expertise helped John Glenn successfully orbit the Earth in 1962.
KATHERINE JOHNSON NASA MOVIE FULL
Beginning in the 1940s, a group of African American female mathematicians, working in the West Area Computing Unit at NASA’s Langley Lab in Virginia, crunched books full of complicated numbers.
13, 2017 – Before digital machines were called computers, human mathematicians were called computers. 12, 2016 at Kennedy Space Center in Florida with the stars of Hidden Figures, the movie. 13, 2017, ID #8671) NASA held a press conference on Dec. (This article was first published on Student News Net, Feb. Hidden Figures tells riveting story of NASA’s human computersīy Judith Stanford Miller, Student News Net editor
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