Katherine Johnson Slider Puzzle

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  • Mathematician.
  • Graduated from college at the age of 18, double majoring in Mathematics and French.
  • Started working for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) in 1953 when she learned they were hiring African American women to be their “computers.”
  • After NACA became NASA, Katherine was selected to be one of the people to trying to figure out how to get humans into space and worked backwards in order to make sure the calculations would work.
  • Worked on the calculation to help get the Apollo astronauts home from the moon.
  • In 2015, then President Barack Obama honored Katherine with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which is the highest honor for United States civilians.
  • In 2016 the story of Katherine, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson was told in the box office smash Hidden Figures.

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