BIO HISTORICAL CHARACTER

Kathrine Johnson

The mathematician in the shadow of NASA

'' I thought I was where I was supposed to be ''

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Family

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- Creola Kathrine Coleman- 26 August 1918 - West Virginia

- Woodcutter- Farmer- Was working in a hotel

Father

Mother

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- Teacher

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Gratuated at 14 years old !

She discovered mathematics and she became very talented

Secondary school at the age of 10

Thanks to her parents

Move to another country

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Graduated from college at 18 years old

Ps : Honours in Maths and French

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James Goble

Stopped teaching

She gives birth to 3 daughters before her hunsban died

3 years later she remarried

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1953-NACA (forerunner of NASA)

Recruited for her algebraic calculation and analytical geometry skills

A very important role in the space race between the USA and USSR

A report with :- equations on the stages of orbital space flight- the positions required for a successful landing of a spacecraft

A document about satellite recovery

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First projet

Second Project

She analysed the path and the suborbital launching of the flight of Alan Shepard part of the mercury-redstern mission

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She verified the elements of the space flight of John Glenn in 1962 for mercury atlas 6 mission

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Third project

Fourth project

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She was helping to calculate the rendezvous trajectories between the lunar module and the command module before the return to Earth.

Her greatest achievement

She was a member of the association kappa alpha

she died on frebruary 24th 2020, at the age of 101.

She retired in 1986. She receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Barack Obama

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She was classified as having an IQ 2 points higher than Einstein's

A space freighter and a ship named after him

Questions :

According to you, what harmed her the most : being a woman or being a black person ?

If you lived at her time, what would you thought/said about her calculs and her person ? Would you have trust her calculs if you were one of the people in the rocket ?