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dorothy was almost as great as this picture

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dorothy was almost as great as this picture

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SLAY!!!!

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They all had families i think and those familes were sucessful and good so yeah

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Being handpicked to be one of three black students to integrate West Virginia’s graduate schools is something that many people would consider one of their life’s most notable moments, but it’s just one of several breakthroughs that have marked Katherine Johnson’s long and remarkable life. Born in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, in 1918, her intense curiosity and brilliance with numbers vaulted her ahead several grades in school. By 13, she was attending the high school on the campus of historically black West Virginia State College. At 18, she enrolled in the college itself, where she made quick work of the school’s math curriculum and found a mentor in math professor W. W. Schieffelin Claytor, the third African American to earn a PhD in mathematics. She graduated with highest honors in 1937 and took a job teaching at a black public school in Virginia.

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When West Virginia decided to quietly integrate its graduate schools in 1939, West Virginia State’s president, Dr. John W. Davis, selected her and two men to be the first black students offered spots at the state’s flagship school, West Virginia University. She left her teaching job and enrolled in the graduate math program. At the end of the first session, however, she decided to leave school to start a family with her first husband, James Goble.  She returned to teaching when her three daughters got older, but it wasn’t until 1952 that a relative told her about open positions at the all-black West Area Computing section at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics’ (NACA’s) Langley laboratory, headed by fellow West Virginian Dorothy Vaughan. Katherine and her husband decided to move the family to Newport News, Virginia, to pursue the opportunity, and Katherine began work at Langley in the summer of 1953. Just two weeks into her tenure in the office, Dorothy Vaughan assigned her to a project in the Maneuver Loads Branch of the Flight Research Division, and Katherine’s temporary position soon became permanent. She spent the next four years analyzing data from flight tests and worked on the investigation of a plane crash caused by wake turbulence. As she was wrapping up this work her husband died of cancer in December 1956.

The 1957 launch of the Soviet satellite Sputnik changed history—and Johnson’s life. In 1957, she provided some of the math for the 1958 document Notes on Space Technology, a compendium of a series of 1958 lectures given by engineers in the Flight Research Division and the Pilotless Aircraft Research Division (PARD). Engineers from those groups formed the core of the Space Task Group, the NACA’s first official foray into space travel. Johnson, who had worked with many of them since coming to Langley, “came along with the program” as the NACA became NASA later that year. She did trajectory analysis for Alan Shepard’s May 1961 mission Freedom 7, America’s first human spaceflight. In 1960, she and engineer Ted Skopinski coauthored Determination of Azimuth Angle at Burnout for Placing a Satellite Over a Selected Earth Position, a report laying out the equations describing an orbital spaceflight in which the landing position of the spacecraft is specified. It was the first time a woman in the Flight Research Division had received credit as an author of a research report.

In 1962, as NASA prepared for the orbital mission of John Glenn, Johnson was called upon to do the work that she would become most known for. The complexity of the orbital flight had required the construction of a worldwide communications network, linking tracking stations around the world to IBM computers in Washington, Cape Canaveral in Florida, and Bermuda. The computers had been programmed with the orbital equations that would control the trajectory of the capsule in Glenn’s Friendship 7 mission from liftoff to splashdown, but the astronauts were wary of putting their lives in the care of the electronic calculating machines, which were prone to hiccups and blackouts. As a part of the preflight checklist, Glenn asked engineers to “get the girl”—Johnson—to run the same numbers through the same equations that had been programmed into the computer, but by hand, on her desktop mechanical calculating machine.  “If she says they’re good,’” Katherine Johnson remembers the astronaut saying, “then I’m ready to go.” Glenn’s flight was a success, and marked a turning point in the competition between the United States and the Soviet Union in space.

When asked to name her greatest contribution to space exploration, Johnson would talk about the calculations that helped synch Project Apollo’s Lunar Module with the lunar-orbiting Command and Service Module. She also worked on the Space Shuttle and the Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS, later renamed Landsat) and authored or coauthored 26 research reports. She retired in 1986, after 33 years at Langley. “I loved going to work every single day,” she said. In 2015, at age 97, Johnson added another extraordinary achievement to her long list: President Barack Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America’s highest civilian honor.

She died on Feb. 24, 2020. NASA Administrator James Bridenstine said, "Our NASA family is sad to learn the news that Katherine Johnson passed away this morning at 101 years old. She was an American hero and her pioneering legacy will never be forgotten."

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They were all very important to space exploration.

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They were all very important to space exploration.

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All the women who worked at NASA played an important role in putting people in space

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She was cool

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they proved that colored people were equal to whites

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they proved that colored people were equal to whites

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Mary helped to put the first man on the moon

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Mary helped to put the first man on the moon

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Mary and many other black women helped to get the first man into space. They made calculations and used teamwork to reach a unimaginable goal for our country.

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She was vital in the space race against the russians

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She was vital in the space race against the russians

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She was so important to NASA despite the racism

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She was so important to NASA despite the racism

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Mary Jackson was born April 9, 1921, Hampton, Virginia, U.S.A. She was a math genius and an aerospace engineer. most importantly she was the first African American female engineer to work and be the first flight engineers for NASA. Mary Jackson attended school and graduated with high honors. She persuades and earned her degree in mathematics and physical science at the Hampton Institute (which is now Hampton University) in 1942. Mary worked a series of jobs from being a teacher to bookkeeper and receptionist. Mary later got married to Levi Jackson. Mary settled working in NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics) in 1951. She worked and was the member of the west area computing unit, were at the time was called the “human computer”. She was supervised by Dorothy Vaughan who was also a comprising African American female mathematician. Both women provided data that was important for the early success of the space. She wanted to resign, but after one of the male supervisors heard her complaints, he invited her to work for him, and that had changed her mind. In 1953, Mary Jackson had then left the west computers in order to work for engineer Kazimierz Czarnecki. They both conducted experiments in a high-speed wind tunnel. He quickly saw mary’s potential and encouraged her to take training programs that would allow her to take engineering classes and become an engineer. In order for mary to take those necessary classes, she had to have permission from the city of Hampton to take those classes along with her white peers in the classroom. Mary had completed her courses and then in 1958 became the first black female engineer at NASA. Mary had received a promotion to be an aeronautical engineer and have the ability to develop and expertise on working with wind tunnels and analyzing data for aircrafts flight.

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SHe slays in green and she is smart

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she was the first to work for naca

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Mary Jackson was the first African American engineer to work at NACA. She also played an important role in desegregating NACA/NASA

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She was very important to the progression to the colored communitry

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She was very important to the progression to the colored communitry

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Her husband dies and she was sad but then she had kids so she was fine

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Mary decided to get demoted to a lower ranking job so that she could help other woman like her have a career in science.

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Mary decided to get demoted to a lower ranking job so that she could help other woman like her have a career in science.

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Mary Jackson was an independent woman who was very intelligent. Mary Jackson made a huge impact on our space program and she is still remembered to this day!

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No way its America!!!!!!

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She was inspiring to the African American community

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She was inspiring to the African American community

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She had like a family

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She was able to work on the nonsegregated part of NACA

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They were good

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She got promoted

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wow...

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I am so smart s-m-r-t, I mean s-m-a-r-t

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she was an independent wumin

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do do do Doo do do do ooo do do do do do

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Was a hard working full time job mother 

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Was a hard working full time job mother 

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She was an aspiring women who kept her job after the war. She was also a mother who took care of her kids at day and work 3pm-11pm at nights. She helped make the first plane go faster than the speed of light. And she was the first African american women to be a Manager at NACA

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“I changed what I could, and what I couldn't, I endured.” (Mary Jackson)

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She began working at West Computing and then went on to be the first African American supervisor.

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she worked with the engineers

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Mary always persevere through the challenges thrown at her, being a black woman.

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Mary always persevere through the challenges thrown at her, being a black woman.

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She was like, really smart.

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"Now don't get me wrong, any upward movement is movement for us all."

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She dedicated much of her time and overcame challenges to work at nasa

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She dedicated much of her time and overcame challenges to work at nasa

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I'm just better

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started as female african american computers.

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started as female african american computers.

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She did the uhh good job

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Without her they would not be able to put a man on the moon.

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Who helped to de-segregate NACA the most

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Who helped to de-segregate NACA the most

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Her work helped to create the first rockets.

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Her work helped to create the first rockets.

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Her work on supersonic aircraft was the groundwork for rocketships

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She was the top g

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did smart hings for naka

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was one of the first african american engineer in the aviation buisness 

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was one of the first african american engineer in the aviation buisness 

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She greatly advanced the african-american community

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All started off as teachers.

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"Separate and equal are two different things. Just 'cause it's the way, doesn't make it right, understand?"

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She was awesome

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used to teach children, became the first african american engineer

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used to teach children, became the first african american engineer

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she was not thought of as much when she started but now she is highly regarded

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She was the supervisor of the west computing hall

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She was the supervisor of the west computing hall

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She led all of the African American computers

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Dorothy contributed greatly as she was one of the first african-american woman to be in a management position

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she was a human computer and became a Supervisor

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she was a human computer and became a Supervisor

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The first african american woman engineer.

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The first african american woman engineer.

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female african american computers

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She started out as a teacher

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she was a fierce engineer who was a teacher

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She made the Apollo 11 happened.

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She was a supervisor. She encouraged a friend to continue to steal a colored sign from the cafeteria.

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worked for NACA