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Katherine Johnson

Thea Feldman

201747 pagesabout 1 hour
2017
first published
  • 2017Simon Spotlight · 47 pages · ENGISBN 9781534403413
  • 2017Simon Spotlight · 48 pagesISBN 9781534403406

Meet Katherine Johnson, a brilliant mathematician who worked at NASA in the early 1950s until retiring in 1986. Katherine s unparalleled calculations (done by hand) helped plan the trajectories for NASA s Mercury and Apollo missions (including the Apollo 11 moon landing). She is said to be one of the greatest American minds of all time.

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