{"id":168646,"date":"2021-08-26T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/?migration=converted-node-473502"},"modified":"2023-07-26T16:10:34","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T20:10:34","slug":"katherine-johnsons-stem-contributions-marked-on-her-103rd-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/centers-and-facilities\/langley\/katherine-johnsons-stem-contributions-marked-on-her-103rd-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Katherine Johnson\u2019s STEM Contributions Marked on her 103rd Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\" class=\"padding-top-5 padding-bottom-3 width-full maxw-full hds-module hds-module-full wp-block-nasa-blocks-article-intro\"><div class=\"width-full maxw-full article-header\"><div class=\"margin-bottom-2 width-full maxw-full\"><p class=\"label carbon-60 margin-0 margin-bottom-3 padding-0\">3 min read<\/p><h1 class=\"display-48 margin-bottom-2\">Katherine Johnson\u2019s STEM Contributions Marked on her 103rd Birthday<\/h1><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-media hds-module wp-block-image\"><div class=\"margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline\"><div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\"><figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-none \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/katherine_johnson_john_glenn_0.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1213\" height=\"617\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/katherine_johnson_john_glenn_0.png?w=1213\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"NASA research mathematician Katherine Johnson is photographed at her desk at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia.\" style=\"transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/katherine_johnson_john_glenn_0.png 1213w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/katherine_johnson_john_glenn_0.png?resize=300,153 300w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/katherine_johnson_john_glenn_0.png?resize=768,391 768w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/katherine_johnson_john_glenn_0.png?resize=1024,521 1024w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/katherine_johnson_john_glenn_0.png?resize=400,203 400w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/katherine_johnson_john_glenn_0.png?resize=600,305 600w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/katherine_johnson_john_glenn_0.png?resize=900,458 900w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/katherine_johnson_john_glenn_0.png?resize=1200,610 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1213px) 100vw, 1213px\" loading=\"eager\" \/><\/a><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\"><div class=\"hds-caption-text p-sm margin-0\">NASA research mathematician Katherine Johnson is photographed at her desk at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. Born on Aug. 26, 1918, in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, Johnson worked at Langley from 1953 until her retirement in 1986. During her years at NASA, Johnson made many critical technical contributions to NASA spaceflight missions, including calculating the trajectory of astronaut Alan Shepard’s historic 1961 flight, when Shepard became the first American to reach space.<\/div><div class=\"hds-credits\">NASA<\/div><\/figcaption><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p>From her humble West Virginia roots to leading humankind to the Moon, the accomplishments of Katherine Johnson can be measured beyond the numerical problems she solved for NASA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As we celebrate what would have been her 103rd birthday today, we reflect on the many barriers Johnson broke in the fields of STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) on her way to history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Johnson did trajectory analysis for Alan Shepard\u2019s Freedom 7 mission in May 1961, America\u2019s first human spaceflight. At a time when digital computers were relatively new and untested, she famously checked the computer\u2019s math for John Glenn\u2019s historic first orbital spaceflight by an American in February 1962. She went on to do the calculations for the first actual Moon landing in 1969. Those are just three bullet points in a brilliant 33-year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/content\/katherine-johnson-biography\">career that stretched from 1953 to 1986<\/a> with NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, and its predecessor agency, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cWe will always have STEM with us. Some things will drop out of the public eye and will go away, but there will always be science, engineering and technology. And there will always, always be mathematics. Everything is physics and math.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2013 Katherine Johnson<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Johnson often spoke to students about her own career and encouraged them to pursue STEM careers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe will always have STEM with us. Some things will drop out of the public eye and will go away, but there will always be science, engineering and technology,\u201d she said to students at the NASA Trailblazers and Legends STEM Conference in Cape Canaveral, Florida in 2010. \u201cAnd there will always, always be mathematics. Everything is physics and math.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At a time when racial segregation was prevalent throughout the southern United States, Johnson and fellow NASA luminaries and Langley African-American mathematicians Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson \u2013 who was later promoted to engineer \u2013 broke through racial barriers to achieve success in their careers at NASA, They also helped pave the way for the diversity that currently extends across all levels of  the agency\u2019s workforce and leadership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Johnson, along with Jackson and Vaughan, were featured in the best-selling 2016 book \u201cHidden Figures: The Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race\u201d by Margot Lee Shetterly, which became a hit movie of the same name in 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Johnson\u2019s trailblazing path to the stars led to the way for all people to progress and thrive at NASA and beyond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Johnson was born on Aug. 26, 1918 in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, and died on Feb. 24, 2020. 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