How NASA’s Katherine Johnson Had the Right Stuff to Win the Space Race

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Astronaut Joh Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth, called on Katherine Johnson to recheck the trajectory of his orbit that had been calculated by NASA's then state-of-the-art computers.

4 May 2016 Edit: 17 April 2016

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