RIP Katherine Johnson - NASA pioneer

[bobabode]

'HAMPTON, Va. — Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who worked on NASA’s early space missions and was portrayed in the film “Hidden Figures,” about pioneering black female aerospace workers, has died, according to NASA.

In a Monday morning tweet, the space agency said it celebrates her 101 years of life and her legacy of excellence and breaking down racial and social barriers.
Johnson was one of the so-called “computers” who calculated rocket trajectories and Earth orbits by hand during NASA’s early years.

Until 1958, Johnson and other black women worked in a racially segregated computing unit at what is now called Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va. Their work was the focus of the Oscar-nominated 2016 film." LA Times

https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2020-02-24/

[JJIII]

May she rest in peace.

..

[Dondilion]

RlP Katherine Johnson.

I need to inform my math clique of her passing.

[Oerets]

R.I.P.

What an accomplished life she had.