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Katherine Johnson: The Human Check Behind America’s First Orbital Flight In February 1962, as the United States prepared to send astronaut John Glenn into orbit, he made a personal request that spoke volumes about trust and expertise. Although an IBM computer had already calculated the spacecraft’s trajectory, Glenn insisted that the numbers be verified by hand — by Katherine Johnson. Johnson, a brilliant mathematician at NASA, carefully recalculated the orbital equations manually. Her work conf
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Do you know Long before computers were trusted to guide spaceflight, Katherine Johnson was already doing the math that carried America into space and brought its astronauts home. 😲 Born in 1918 in West Virginia, Johnson was a prodigy who started high school at 10 and graduated college summa cum laude at 18. Her talent was so exceptional that a professor created an advanced geometry course just for her, steering her toward research mathematics at a time when few Black women were allowed near it.
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