I'M
katherine
johnson.
Biography
Katherine Johnson was born on August 26, 1918 in White Sulpher Springs, WV. Her family was not very poor. Her dad was a farmer and her mom was a teacher. She was one of the handpicked black students to intergrate into a white school. She grew up fascinated with numbers and how math worked. She went through school as a genius. Her father drove Johnson's family 120 miles so that she could attend high school, which at the time was not very common from the people of the black race. She started high school in West Virginia at the age of 10, graduated at the age of 14 and graduated from college at the age of 18 with a degree in math. Johnson became a teacher, and after a long time, was employed by NASA as one of the first black female people in the division and she became a "computer". She flourished at NASA. She is most recognized for her work on the mission to space. Johnson calculated everything for John Glenn's flight into space, which would be known as the first man in space. Throughout her years at NASA she helped with many other missions including some of the greatest lunar missions. In 2015, at the age of 97, Johnson accepted the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America’s highest civilian honor. At her presentation for the award she said “I loved going to work every single day”!
Timeline
February 20, 1962
First Orbital Mission
Johnson worked on all of the mathematical callings for the first orbit around the Earth.
College
Johnson started to attend college at the age of 14.
August 26, 1918
Birth
Katherine Johnson was born in the town of White Sulphur Springs, WV.
1986
Retirement
Johnson retired from NASA.
June 1953
Hired by NASA
Jackson was asked to join Nasa as a "computer" with two other black women.
High School
Johnson's father drove her 120 miles to attend high school at the age of 10.
Bibliography
-"‘Hidden’ no more: Katherine Johnson, a black NASA pioneer, finds acclaim at 98." From Press, au.pressfrom.com/news/world/-7037-hidden-no-more-katherine-johnson-a-black-nasa-pioneer-finds-acclaim-at-98/. Accessed 16 Feb. 2017. Used to find media.
-"Janelle Monae moved to tears reading Hidden Figures script." EPOSE.ie, 5 July 2016, www.tv3.ie/xpose/article/entertainment-news/208983/Janelle-Monae-moved-to-tears-reading-Hidden-Figures-script. Accessed 16 Feb. 2017. Used to find facts.
-"Katherine Johnson." The Human Computer Project, thehumancomputerproject.com/women/katherine-johnson. Accessed 15 Feb. 2017. I used this source in my media file and biography to explain facts and provide media.
-NASA. "Katherine Johnson: The Girl Who Loved to Count." NASA, 27 Nov. 2015, www.nasa.gov/feature/katherine-johnson-the-girl-who-loved-to-count. Accessed 14 Feb. 2017. This webpage was useful to me when writing the bibliography, timeline, and the interesting facts about Katherine Johnson. I used it on the bibliography, timeline, and facts page. This includes giving important dates, special events, fun facts, and more.
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-Shetterly, Margot Lee. "Katherine Johnson Biography." NASA, 1 Dec. 2016, www.nasa.gov/content/katherine-johnson-biography. Accessed 14 Feb. 2017. This website was very helpful when it came to writing the biography and interesting facts. Used on the biography and interesting facts tab to cover different points that I did not know before. This includes time and place of birth, date of graduation, date of employment, date of retirement and much more.