dragoni reblogged
Happy 99th birthday to the amazing Katherine Johnson, who computed the trajectory that landed Apollo 11 on the moon.
“In math, you’re either right or you’re wrong”, Katherine Johnson
Without Katherine Johnson, there wouldn’t have been a moon landing!
When Neil Armstrong set his foot on the moon, his “giant leap for mankind” had been powered by womankind, particularly by Katherine Johnson — the “computer” who calculated Apollo 11’s launch windows and who was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Obama at age 97 in 2015, three years after the accolade was conferred upon John Glenn, the astronaut whose flight trajectory Johnson had made possible.
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