Melissa Kimble is the Senior Social Media Manager for the EBONY brand. In case you’ve missed it, you can watch the trailer for Hidden Figures, in theaters January 13, here. Their impact and work was crucial to the success of the agency’s Mercury and Apollo missions.
In addition to Johnson, Hidden Figures, tells the story of mathematicians and scientists Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson, who were the first African-American women to work for NASA during its formative years. I counted the steps to the road, the steps up to church, the number of dishes and silverware I washedanything that could be counted, I did. Watch the compelling story of Katherine Johnson’s journey below, narrated by Taraji P. Katherine Johnson was born on August 26, 1918, in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. To honor this remarkable woman, Fox will be making a donation to STEM education for every share of the video. Today is Women’s Equality Day, (August 23 was Black Women’s Equal Pay Day), a day celebrating women’s rights. The film is based on the women who profoundly contributed to America’s aeronautics and space programs with the early application of digital electronic computers at NASA. Henson in 20th Century Fox’s highly-anticipated new film Hidden Figures, is the real life mathematician, physicist and space scientist depicted in the film. The authoritative record of NPR’s programming is the audio record.Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on Pinterest Share on LinkedIn Share on Email This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. This documentary includes an interview with Johnson herself, as well as interviews with NASAs chief historian, a curator at the Smithsonians Air & Space. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at for further information. SHAPIRO: In 2015, President Obama awarded Katherine Johnson the Presidential Medal of Freedom.īARACK OBAMA: In her 33 years at NASA, Katherine was a pioneer who broke the barriers of race and gender - showing generations of young people that everyone can excel in math and science and reach for the stars.Ĭopyright © 2018 NPR. There's no such thing as a dumb question. But if you want to know, you ask the question. JOHNSON: Girls, some of them are reluctant to ask questions. And if you are not in my class, I'm going to come and find you.ĬHANG: Johnson, in that same interview, says she thinks many more women could find careers in math.
JOHNSON: I was walking across the campus, and I met a math teacher who said, I'm coming back to teach math this year. This weekend, before her 100th birthday, the school unveiled a statue of her on campus.ĬHANG: She was a double major in French and math. A subscriber receives 10 gift articles every month as gifts.
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Hidden Figures, a 2016 movie about black women mathematicians at NASA, brought her to the forefront. She graduated from high school at the age of 14 and from West Virginia State at the age of 18. At the age of 101, Katherine Johnson died while breaking mathematician barriers at NASA. SHAPIRO: That's Johnson in a 2011 interview with public television station WHRO. KATHERINE JOHNSON: And he always said, you will go to college. Her father made sure she went to high school and beyond. As a little girl, she loved to count everything. TARAJI P HENSON: (As Katherine Johnson) OK, so that puts your landing on at 5.0667 degrees north, 77.3333 degrees west.ĬHANG: Katherine Johnson grew up in West Virginia, in the segregated South. SHAPIRO: The work of Johnson and her fellow black female colleagues became better known after the 2016 book and movie "Hidden Figures." Johnson was played by Taraji P. She also verified the trajectories for the Apollo lunar missions. John Glenn asked for her to personally check the trajectories for his Friendship 7 orbit. Katherine Johnson figured out the trajectories for NASA's first manned launch. She's one of the mathematicians who helped get the U.S. Her calculations of orbital mechanics were critical to the success of the first and subsequent manned space flights in the US. Johnson overcame racial and gender discrimination and went on to become a crucial part of the US’s space programme. Katherine Johnson was born on Augmeaning, yesterday was her one hundredth birthday. The human-computer Well, on the 26 August NASA joined Katherine Johnson on her 100 th birthday.
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