BREAKING: Katherine Johnson, NASA mathematician depicted in 'Hidden Figures', has died at age 101.
The film also stars Octavia Spencer as mathematician Dorothy Vaughan and Janelle Monáe as engineer Mary Jackson.
She was also the first woman in the Flight Research Division to receive credit as an author of a research report for her work with Ted Skopinski on detailing the equations describing an orbital spaceflight.She was best-known though for work that greatly contributed to the first American orbital spaceflight, piloted by John Glenn.
But astronauts weren't keen on"putting their lives in the care of the electronic calculating machines, which were prone to hiccups and blackouts," according to NASA. So Glenn asked engineers to"get the girl," referring to Johnson, to run the computer equations by hand. “If she says they’re good,’” Johnson remembered Glenn saying, “then I’m ready to go.”
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