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Katherine Johnson Johnson in 1983 Born Creola Katherine Coleman (1918-08-26) August 26, 1918 White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, U.S. Died February 24, 2020 (2020-02-24) (aged 101) Newport News, Virginia, U.S. Other names Katherine Goble Education West Virginia State University (BS) Occupation Mathematician Employers NACA NASA (1953–1986) Known for Calculating trajectories for NASA ...
Catherine T. Osgood was an American aerospace engineer and one of the first few women to work at NASA. She is known for her work on spacecraft rendezvous for the Apollo lunar landing in 1969. Early life and education
Hidden Figures is a 2016 American biographical drama film directed by Theodore Melfi and written by Melfi and Allison Schroeder.It is loosely based on the 2016 non-fiction book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly about three female African-American mathematicians: Katherine Goble Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer), and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe), who worked ...
While at Michigan, she also completed coursework towards a Masters' of Engineering in Space Systems Engineering [3] with former NASA Administrator Thomas Zurbuchen. Walker was a postdoc at Georgia Tech working with planetary scientist Britney Schmidt on terrestrial analogs for Ocean Worlds ice-ocean interactions, and deployed with Schmidt's ...
Catherine Grace "Cady" Coleman (born December 14, 1960) is an American chemist, engineer, former United States Air Force colonel, and retired NASA astronaut. [1] She is a veteran of two Space Shuttle missions, and departed the International Space Station on May 23, 2011, as a crew member of Expedition 27 after logging 159 days in space.
Kathryn Ryan Cordell Thornton (born August 17, 1952) is an American scientist and a former NASA astronaut with over 975 hours in space, including 21 hours of extravehicular activity. [1] She was the associate dean for graduate programs at the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science, currently a professor of mechanical ...
Murali and 10 other teachers who submitted winning proposals for zero gravity experiments that aligned with their classwork will fly 32,000 feet above the Kennedy Space Center in Florida between ...
Catherine Jeanne Cesarsky (born Catherine Jeanne Gattegno on 24 February 1943) is an Argentine and French astronomer, known for her research activities in astrophysics and for her leadership in astronomy and atomic energy. She is the current chairperson of the Square Kilometre Array's governing body, SKAO Council. [2]