NASA Dedicates Facility to Mathematician, Presidential Medal Winner
Δημοσιεύτηκε στις 5 Μαΐ 2016
NASA
commemorated the many contributions of retired mathematician Katherine
Johnson to America’s space program during a building dedication ceremony
on May 5, at the agency’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia.
Langley’s new Katherine G. Johnson Computational Research Facility was
formally dedicated to the venerated mathematician and Presidential Medal
of Freedom recipient.
Johnson worked at Langley from 1953 until
her retirement in 1986, beginning as a research mathematician -- part
of a pool of women hired to perform mathematical equations and
calculations by hand for engineers. She quickly distinguished herself
and was permanently assigned to the branch that would later calculate
the launch windows for NASA’s first Project Mercury flights.
Notable
accomplishments include her computation, by hand, of the launch window
and trajectory for Alan Shepard’s maiden space voyage aboard Freedom 7
in 1961, and verification, also by hand, of calculations made by the
first computers for John Glenn's history-making orbit around the Earth
in 1962. She also calculated the trajectory for the historic Apollo 11
first moon landing flight in 1969.
commemorated the many contributions of retired mathematician Katherine
Johnson to America’s space program during a building dedication ceremony
on May 5, at the agency’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia.
Langley’s new Katherine G. Johnson Computational Research Facility was
formally dedicated to the venerated mathematician and Presidential Medal
of Freedom recipient.
Johnson worked at Langley from 1953 until
her retirement in 1986, beginning as a research mathematician -- part
of a pool of women hired to perform mathematical equations and
calculations by hand for engineers. She quickly distinguished herself
and was permanently assigned to the branch that would later calculate
the launch windows for NASA’s first Project Mercury flights.
Notable
accomplishments include her computation, by hand, of the launch window
and trajectory for Alan Shepard’s maiden space voyage aboard Freedom 7
in 1961, and verification, also by hand, of calculations made by the
first computers for John Glenn's history-making orbit around the Earth
in 1962. She also calculated the trajectory for the historic Apollo 11
first moon landing flight in 1969.
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