{"id":51198,"date":"2017-01-16T02:20:13","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T02:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=51198"},"modified":"2017-01-16T02:20:13","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T02:20:13","slug":"katherine-johnson-va-woman-at-center-of-hidden-figures-calls-calculation-piece-of-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=51198","title":{"rendered":"Katherine Johnson, Va. woman at center of \u2018Hidden Figures,\u2019 calls calculation \u2018piece of\u00a0cake\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wtvr.com\/2017\/01\/13\/local-woman-at-center-of-hidden-figures-speaks-out-it-feels-good\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Katherine Johnson, Va. woman at center of \u2018Hidden Figures,\u2019 calls calculation \u2018piece of\u00a0cake\u2019<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wtvr.com\" target=\"_blank\">CBS 6, WTVR-TV<\/a><br \/>\nRichmond Virginia<br \/>\n2017-01-13<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hampton,_Virginia\" target=\"_blank\">HAMPTON, Va.<\/a> &#8212; It is the untold story that has been hidden in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hampton,_Virginia\" target=\"_blank\">Hampton<\/a> for decades.<\/p>\n<p>The box office hit &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hidden_Figures\" target=\"_blank\">Hidden Figures<\/a>&#8221; highlights the black female mathematicians at <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NASA\" target=\"_blank\">NASA<\/a> who&#8217;s brain power helped launch the first Americans into space.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It feels good,&#8221; said 98-year-old former NASA mathematician <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Katherine_Johnson\" target=\"_blank\">Katherine Johnson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson, portrayed in the film by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Taraji_P._Henson\" target=\"_blank\">Taraji P. Henson<\/a>, calculated the trajectory for <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alan_Shepard\" target=\"_blank\">Alan Shepard<\/a>, the first American in space.\u00a0 Johnson also confirmed, by hand, the launch calculations for <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Glenn\" target=\"_blank\">John Glenn<\/a>,\u00a0the first American to circle the globe in 1962&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article and watch the story <a href=\"http:\/\/wtvr.com\/2017\/01\/13\/local-woman-at-center-of-hidden-figures-speaks-out-it-feels-good\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katherine Johnson, Va. woman at center of \u2018Hidden Figures,\u2019 calls calculation \u2018piece of\u00a0cake\u2019 CBS 6, WTVR-TV Richmond Virginia 2017-01-13 HAMPTON, Va. &#8212; It is the untold story that has been hidden in Hampton for decades. The box office hit &#8220;Hidden Figures&#8221; highlights the black female mathematicians at NASA who&#8217;s brain power helped launch the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1245,8,20,693,25],"tags":[24755,24761,19571,19572,19573,26000],"class_list":["post-51198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-biography","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-virginia","category-women","tag-alan-shepard","tag-john-glenn","tag-katherine-johnson","tag-nasa","tag-national-aeronautics-and-space-administration","tag-wtvr-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51199,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51198\/revisions\/51199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}