November 8, 2019, Congressional Gold MedalĪ 40,000-square-foot building was named "Katherine G. May 12, 2018, Honorary Doctorate of Science from the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VirginiaĪpril 29, 2019, honorary degree from the University of Johannesburg, South Africa Walker II AwardĢ016, Presidential Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from West Virginia University, Morgantown, West VirginiaĢ017, Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) Medal of HonorĢ017 Honorary Doctorate from Spelman College Group Achievement Award presented to NASA's Lunar Spacecraft and Operations team – for pioneering work in the field of navigation supporting the spacecraft that orbited and mapped the Moon in preparation for the Apollo programġ971, 1980, 1984, 1985, 1986: NASA Langley Research Center Special Achievement awardġ998, Honorary Doctor of Laws, from SUNY Farmingdaleġ999, West Virginia State College Outstanding Alumnus of the YearĢ006, Honorary Doctor of Science by the Capitol College, Laurel, MarylandĢ010, Honorary Doctorate of Science from Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VirginiaĢ014, De Pizan Honor from National Women's History MuseumĢ015, Presidential Medal of Silver Snoopy award from Leland MelvinĢ016, Astronomical Society of the Pacific's Arthur B.C. She also worked on the Space Shuttle program, the Earth Resource Satellite, and on plans for a mission to Mars. She worked on the 1970 Apollo 13 mission to the Moon. She helped to calculate the trajectory for the 1969 Apollo 11 flight to the Moon. She calculated the launch window for his 1961 Mercury mission. She calculated the trajectory for the space flight of Alan Shepard. She directly worked with digital computers. She worked as an aerospace technologist until her retirement in 1986. She then worked as an aerospace technologist in the Spacecraft Controls Branch. NASA superseded the agency in 1958 and NACA disbanded the colored computing pool.
She was then temporarily assigned to help the all-male flight research team. She worked there as a "computer" between 1953 and first worked there in a pool of women performing math calculations. She accepted a mathematicians job offer at National Advisory Committee for Aeronautical (NACA) in 1953. Though it was a difficult field for African Americans and women, Johnson chose a research mathematician as her career. She quit it in 1940 after she became pregnant. She then quit teaching to join a graduate math program. She then started teaching at a black public school in Marion, Virginia. She graduated with degrees in mathematics and French. She graduated from high school at the age of 14. Thus, she attended high school on the campus of West Virginia State College (now West Virginia State University). At the time, Greenbrier County did not offer public schooling for African-American students past the eighth grade.
She showed her mathematical abilities from an early age. She was born to a father, Joshua Coleman, and a mother, Joylette Coleman. Her birth place is in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia in the United States. Her birth name is Creola Katherine Coleman. Here are our favourite inspiring quotes from the women who made history in space travel – the women who we can thank when our daughters become physicists, engineers, pilots and astronauts.Katherine Johnson was born on 26 August 1918. It’s also that they threw themselves into their studies with fervour, working hard to become astronauts: they were physicists and engineers and pilots and doctors – and that was before they even got into orbit. However, if there’s one thing women who work in space, have flown to space and who inspire the rest of us to reach beyond the stars have shown us, it’s that they persisted, breaking barriers and proving nay-sayers wrong, time and time again. READ MORE: Only 5% of the UK’s pilots are female, but why? However, we know the path still isn’t straightforward for females wanting to go into space: NASA revealed as much earlier in 2019, when the first all-female spacewalk with Christina Koch and Anne McClain was cancelled – embarrassingly, it was due to a lack of proper-fitting female astronaut attire.
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