In 2019, Johnson was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal by the United States Congress. Henson as a lead character in the 2016 film Hidden Figures. She assisted with five more Apollo flights that also made it to the moon, coauthored more reports, including one that calculated flight trajectories to Mars, and worked for nearly 15 years on developing NASA’s first. Melvin and a NASA Group Achievement Award. Johnson enrolled in the graduate math program but left school after the first session to start a family with her husband, James Goble. Katherine Johnson continued to work at NASA until August 1986, combining her math talent with electronic computer skills. In 2016, she was presented with the Silver Snoopy Award by NASA astronaut Leland D. Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson (born August 26, 1918) is a physicist and mathematician who made contributions to the United States aeronautics and space. In 2015, President Barack Obama awarded Johnson the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She was an American hero and her pioneering legacy will never be forgotten.
She was known as a "human computer" for her tremendous mathematical capability and ability to work with space trajectories with such little technology and recognition at the time. NASA Administrator James Bridenstine said, 'Our NASA family is sad to learn the news that Katherine Johnson passed away this morning at 101 years old. Her calculations were also essential to the beginning of the Space Shuttle program, and she worked on plans for a mission to Mars. Johnson's work included calculating trajectories, launch windows, and emergency return paths for Project Mercury spaceflights, including those for astronauts Alan Shepard, the first American in space, and John Glenn, the first American in orbit, and rendezvous paths for the Apollo Lunar Module and command module on flights to the Moon.
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