Remembering Katherine Johnson, The Mathematician Who Reached For The Moon | MTP Daily | MSNBC

Katherine Johnson, NASA mathematician, dies at 101.
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Remembering Katherine Johnson, The Mathematician Who Reached For The Moon | MTP Daily | MSNBC

26 comments

  1. If you ask me the Apollo era was one of the only times I’ve ever considered America to be ‘Great”… Thank you for this story, it’s always good to see some of the 400,000 people that made this happen… And my she rest in peace, she up there amongst the stars with Neil Armstrong…

  2. I was going to say something nice. But they explained jim crow keeping the other women away as if they were less than human. Humans are sick creatures.

  3. She was pivotal in reaching the Moon. Where is the recognition by the President for her efforts? Where is the recognition by NASA for her efforts? Wake up world to the fact that women – all women – are human beings and are to be recognised and acknowledged for their efforts as much as their male counterparts.

  4. Thank you for reporting about this remarkable person and her Medal of Freedom award. I am definitely going to watch Hidden Figures.

  5. Wow I was 19 when it happened on holiday in Rome Italy! So exciting, everyone glued on the box watching the first men on the moon! What a incredible smart woman! I didn’t know about her until I sow the movie! RIP Catherine Johnson a brilliant mathematician🌹🌹🌹 🙏💕🌹🇦🇺

  6. Ms Johnson and the rest of her colleagues who worked with dedication need to be recognized more. How about a statute in D C …Smithsonian’s space museum….and in the lobbyist entrance to the NASA building ? And on the history books so or ur grandchildren are aware if their achievement.

  7. My class room was making a project of her becuase of black history month and we were so sad becuase she passed away during the project

  8. I was going through a box of old stuff the other day, and I found my old slide rule. And now to hear about Katherine, I bet she had one of the bamboo ones, mine still worked like it was new.

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