Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson, born 1918, is a physicist and mathematician who made fundamental contributions to the United States’ aeronautics and space programs with the early application of digital electronic computers at NASA. Her technical work at NASA spanned decades during which she calculated the trajectories, launch windows, and emergency back-up return paths for many flights from Project Mercury including the early NASA missions of John Glenn and Alan Shepard, the 1969 Apollo 11 flight to the Moon, through the Space Shuttle program and even early plans for the Mission to Mars.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Johnson
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/inside-hidden-figures/
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