Katherine Johnson was an incredibly famous African American Scientist who worked in NASA and was an integral role in getting Americans to the moon.
She was a brilliant mathematician who was incredibly talented with numbers. Johnson was born on August 26, 1918. She went to high school at 10 and
graduated from West Virginia University with the highest honors. She worked for NASA as a human computer which did calculations from all kinds of
math! She had become incredibly famous when she was asked by John Glenn, an astronaut on an orbital mission, to run the numbers by hand to see
whether the computers tracking his spacecraft were accurate as he did not want to put his life in jeopardy. John Glenn's mission was a momentous
success and marked a turning point in the competition between the US and the Soviet Union. Her legacy will still be remembered today even though she
passed away on February 4, 2020, at the age of 101. The movie Hidden Figures, directed by Theodore Melfi, provides details about her life's work in
NASA.