She added that she hoped the dedication would inspire others in the future, beyond Black History Month. Hylick said that her mother was living comfortably and was humbled by the recognition. Johnson in the film, called her a “true NASA and American hero.” Johnson even made an appearance at the 2017 Oscars ceremony, where Taraji P. Katherine Johnson became the first black student and African-American woman to attend graduate school at West Virginia University. “The thrilling thing to me about the book, and the movie, is this is an American story that we’re getting to see through the faces of these women,” Margot Lee Shetterly, the book’s author, told The New York Times in 2016. She is one of the top African-American mathematicians, who is still alive at the age of 100 with a perfect health condition, living happily with her second husband. The film of the same name received three Academy Award nominations. What an incredible moment I’m so glad Katherine Johnson is still alive to see her name fully embedded in American culture at NASA What a LEGENDARY woman. Johnson and other black women’s fight for equality in the workplace, increased awareness about her status as a trailblazer. Johnson tracked the orbits of certain major missions, including Alan Shepard’s Freedom 7 in 1961 and John Glenn’s Friendship 7 in 1962, the agency said. Called “colored computers,” she and other black women who worked in NASA’s computing pool more than a half-century ago were separated from their white colleagues while they calculated trajectories for the Apollo missions and other programs. In 2015, President Barack Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. Johnson is not the first time she has been celebrated on the national stage. NASA’s decision to name the facility for Ms. The program housed at the facility monitors the software used to track high-profile NASA missions, according to the agency’s website. The newly renamed facility, which is in Fairmont, W.Va., will now be known as the Katherine Johnson Independent Verification and Validation Facility. A dedication ceremony is to be held at a later time. “I am thrilled we are honoring Katherine Johnson in this way as she is a true American icon who overcame incredible obstacles and inspired so many,” Jim Bridenstine, the administrator of NASA, said Friday in a statement. The mathematician tracked the trajectories of crucial missions in the 1960s. Johnson and other black women for equality at NASA during the height of the space age and segregation. The 2016 film, based on a book released earlier that year, depicted the struggle of Ms. NASA on Friday officially renamed a facility in West Virginia after Katherine Johnson, an African-American mathematician and centenarian whose barrier-breaking career was depicted in the film “Hidden Figures.”
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