katherine johnson

Katherine Johnson was born in 1918 in West Virginia. She made significant contributions to the U.S. Air Force and space program, including calculations for space navigation and trajectories. Initially, she worked in a pool of women doing math calculations, but her expertise in analytic geometry caught the attention of the all-male flight research team. Despite facing barriers, she ignored them and confidently asserted her place on the team. Katherine Johnson was born on August 26, 1918, to Charlotte Roberta and Joshua Macaulay Coleman in the White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. She was the youngest of four children of the couple. His father was a lumberjack, farmer and handman in the Greenbrier Hotel, while his mother was a teacher. He contributed to the development of the U.S. Air Force and space program, starting with the first use of digital electronic computers by NASA. It was highly appreciated for the accuracy it placed in the calculation of comparative space navigation and for the decades-long technical managerial work carried out at NASA. Among the calculations of the parabolic and hyperbolic orbit trajectories of the launch window and of the emergency return path for many flights to Project Mercury, including the first NASA mission of Joe Glenn, Alan Shepard, the Lunar Insertion Trajectory in the Apollo Lunar Flight, continuing with work on the Space Shuttle Program, finally with the design of the first plane for the mission to Mars. At first, she, Johnson, worked in a pool of women performing math calculations. Catherine has referred to the women in the pool as digital computers, who were she scared. Their main job was to read the data from the black books of Flint and carry out other space mathematical tasks. One day, Catherine was temporarily assigned to help the all-male flight research team. Catherine's knowledge of analytic geometry helped make a quick list of male bosses and colleges to the extent that they forgot to return me to the pool. While the radical and gender barriers were always there, Catherine said she ignored them. Catherine was a staff team, asking to be included in editorial meetings. She simply told people she had done the work and that she belonged it.