{"id":51248,"date":"2017-01-19T00:39:46","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T00:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=51248"},"modified":"2017-01-19T00:39:46","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T00:39:46","slug":"98-year-old-nasa-mathematician-katherine-johnson-if-you-like-what-youre-doing-you-will-do-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=51248","title":{"rendered":"98-Year-Old NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson: \u2018If You Like What You\u2019re Doing, You Will Do\u00a0Well\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/people.com\/human-interest\/nasa-katherine-johnson-mathematician-advice-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>98-Year-Old NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson: \u2018If You Like What You\u2019re Doing, You Will Do\u00a0Well\u2019<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/people.com\" target=\"_blank\">People<\/a><br \/>\n2016-11-04<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/caitkeating\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Caitlin Keating<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/players.brightcove.net\/416418724\/default_default\/index.html?videoId=5193900945001\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Katherine_Johnson\" target=\"_blank\">Katherine Johnson<\/a> thinks all of her accomplishments over the 98 years she\u2019s been alive are \u201cordinary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But to the rest of the world, they\u2019re anything but.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson, a physicist, space scientist and mathematician graduated from high school at 14-years-old, attended college the very next year and was the first African-American woman to desegregate the graduate school at West Virginia University&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;In 1953, after years of being a teacher, she began working for <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NASA\" target=\"_blank\">NASA<\/a> where she was nicknamed the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Human_computer\" target=\"_blank\">human computer<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Johnson was able to calculate the trajectory for numerous space missions, including for the space flight of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alan_Shepard\" target=\"_blank\">Alan Shepard<\/a>, the first American in space and the trajectory for the 1969 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Apollo_11\" target=\"_blank\">Apollo 11<\/a> flight to the Moon&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire interview <a href=\"http:\/\/people.com\/human-interest\/nasa-katherine-johnson-mathematician-advice-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>98-Year-Old NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson: \u2018If You Like What You\u2019re Doing, You Will Do\u00a0Well\u2019 People 2016-11-04 Caitlin Keating Katherine Johnson thinks all of her accomplishments over the 98 years she\u2019s been alive are \u201cordinary.\u201d But to the rest of the world, they\u2019re anything but. 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