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Katherine Johnson was part of a group of Black women mathematicians at NASA who were instrumental in successfully getting humans into space.She recently had a spacecraft named after her.
Katherine Johnson -Mathematician, Researcher, Pioneer, Trailblazer, Presidential Medal of Freedom winner, NASA Honoree
Northrop Grumman is proud to name the NG-15 Cygnus spacecraft after NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, a Black woman who time and again broke through barriers of gender and race.
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