Katherine Johnson
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Updated: 4 Apr 2021
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Created byMadelynn Kellam
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Katherine was born, August 26(1918)Katherine finishes eighth grade at age 10(1928)Katherine graduates college at 18(1936)Katherine marries James Francis Goble(1939)Katherine accepts a job as a computer for NASA(1953)Katherine's husband dies of a brain tumor(1956)Katherine gets assigned the first man space mission(1958)Katherine remarries a man named James A. Johnson(1959)Alan Sheppard makes the first journey to space(1962)Katherine wins the NASA Lunar Orbiter Spacecraft and Operations team award(1967)Apollo 13 makes it to the moon(1969)Katherine retires from NASA(1986)Barack Obama presents Katherine with the Presidential Medal of Freedom(2015)New NASA research building is named after 99 year-old Johnson(2017)Katherine Johnson died on February 24th of natural causes(2020)
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