Names
What was Katherine Johnson's nickname at NASA?
Katherine Johnson's nickname was the human computer.
what is a trajectory?
What is a path followed by a projectile flying or an object moving under the action of given forces.
How old was Katherine Johnson when she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom?
Katherine Johnson was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom when she was 97 years old.
How long did Katherine Johnson live to be?
Katherine Johnson lived to be 102 years old.
What was the subject matter that Katherine Johnson studied?
What was the name of the NASA space mission that she did her first trajectory analysis for?
The NASA space mission that she did her first trajectory analysis for was Alan Shepard's May 1961 mission Freedom 7.
What does orbital mean
what is when the earth circles the sun while spinning
What did Katherine Johnson like receiving more than awards?
Katherine Johnson like receiving letters from children even more than receiving awards.
Where did Katherine Johnson move after graduating?
Katherine Johnson moved to Hampton Virginia, home of NASA.
How old was Katherine Johnson when she graduated High school?
Katherine Johnson graduated from high school when she was 14 years old.
Who was the astronaut that trusted Katherine's calculations more than the computer calculations?
It was the astronaut John Glenn that said he'd trust Katherine Johnson more than the computers.
what is geometry
what is the study of shapes
What did NASA dedicate to Katherine Johnson?
NASA dedicated their Computational Research facility to Katherine.
What was special about the time that Katherine Johnson applied to work at NASA?
NASA opened up their work to hire black, female mathematicians.
What did Kathy Goble Moore, Katherine Johnson's daughter, say about her mother?
She said that her mother always loved numbers. She also shared that her mother loved numbers so much so that one of her mother's college Math professors said that she would be a good Math researcher.