Katherine Johnson (1918–2020) was an African American mathematician and physicist whose work was crucial to the success of the United States' early space program. She made significant contributions to the calculations for NASA's Project Mercury and the Apollo missions, including the trajectory analysis for John Glenn's first American orbital flight in 1962. Johnson's work went largely unrecognized for many years due to both the prevailing racial and gender biases of her time.
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