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Aug 26, 2018

Katherine Johnson, who hand-crunched the numbers for America’s first manned space flight, is 100 today

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Black women, especially, played a crucial role in the pool, providing mathematical data for NASA’s first successful space missions, including Alan Shepherd’s 1961 mission and John Glenn’s pioneering orbital spaceflight.

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