Born in 1918, Katherine

Johnson was one of the first

Black students to integrate
West Virginia’s graduate When NASA began to use
schools before becoming a electronic computers for their
NASA mathematician, where calculation, astronaut John
Glenn said that he's trust the
she helped send astronauts
computers only after Johnson
into orbit around Earth and personally checked the math
to the moon and back. She is
an awardee of the
Presidential Medal of
Freedom, America's highest
civilian honor

KATHERINE JOHNSON
AN AMERICAN HERO, A HUMAN CALCULATOR

1918-2020

QUOTE

I don't have a feeling of

inferiority. never had, I'm as good
as anybody, but no better. like
what you do, and then you will do
your best.