Katherine Johnson

Life History
1. Was born on August 26, 1918.
2. She was so intelligent that she skipped kindergarden, 1st grade and 5th grade.
3. She went to west virginia high school and graduated at the age of 14.
  1. she entered high school at the age of 10.
4. Katherin was the only child that attended a special course for advance math wiht analytic geometry.
5. She got a B.S degree for math and french.
6. Jobs
  1. Her first job was as a teacher at elementary of schools in virginia and west virginia.
    1. Whit the national advisory committee for aeronautics NASA.
  2. 1953, she was research mathematician at the Langley research Centre .
7. What was she honored for?
  1. She was honored from NASA and given the group achievement Award.
  2. Katherine also was honored by the Doctor of laws from SUNY farmingdale in 1998.
  3. On May 2006, she was honored with an award for doctor of science.
Major events that happened
1. major events that happened during katherine's lifetime were...
  1. 1929, the great depression begins.
  2. The U.S get's it's national anthem in 1931.
  3. In 1939, World war two begins.
  4. Martin Luther King gives his "i have a dreams" speech in 1963.
  5. In 1963, John f. Kennedy gets assasinated.
  6. In 1969, Neil Armstrong was the first man to set foot on the moon .
Challenges
1. Katherine was perseverance to pursue dreams to overcome race and gender discrimination
2. she was one of the first black to enroll in the graduate program.
3. her husband got cancer, and she had to quit advance school and go black to teaching to support her family.
4. She accomplished her personal and professional achievements.
Contribution to the world
1. She helped to develop space navigation systems to help the astronauts on their trip.
2. She created navigation charts for back-up in case of technology failures.
3. She worked making calculation to drive spaces capsules intro orbits around the moon.
4. katherine calculated trajectories and orbits for the first flight to the moon in 1969.
What effect did it have on society?
1. she is part of our history because she made the U.S dreams come true, which was to get the first man on the moon.
2. She made better calculations from the earth to the moon, so NASA.

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