{"id":57324,"date":"2019-09-09T00:15:33","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T00:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57324"},"modified":"2019-09-09T00:16:39","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T00:16:39","slug":"reaching-for-the-moon-the-autobiography-of-nasa-mathematician-katherine-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57324","title":{"rendered":"Reaching for the Moon: The Autobiography of NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.simonandschuster.com\/books\/Reaching-for-the-Moon\/Katherine-Johnson\/9781534440838\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Reaching for the Moon: The Autobiography of NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/simonandschusterpublishing.com\/atheneum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Atheneum Books for Young Readers<\/a> (an imprint of Simon and Schuster)<br \/>\n2019-07-02<br \/>\n288 pages<br \/>\nHardcover ISBN 13: 9781534440838<br \/>\neBook ISBN 13: 9781534440852<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Katherine_Johnson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Katherine Johnson<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.simonandschuster.com\/books\/Reaching-for-the-Moon\/Katherine-Johnson\/9781534440838\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"modal-book-image lazyautosizes lazyloaded\" title=\"Reaching for the Moon\" src=\"https:\/\/d28hgpri8am2if.cloudfront.net\/book_images\/onix\/cvr9781534440838\/reaching-for-the-moon-9781534440838_xlg.jpg\" sizes=\"350px\" alt=\"Reaching for the Moon\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-src=\"https:\/\/d28hgpri8am2if.cloudfront.net\/book_images\/onix\/cvr9781534440838\/reaching-for-the-moon-9781534440838_xlg.jpg\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The inspiring autobiography of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NASA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NASA<\/a> mathematician Katherine Johnson, who helped launch <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Apollo_11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apollo 11<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Throughout Katherine Johnson\u2019s extraordinary career, there hasn\u2019t been a boundary she hasn\u2019t broken through or a ceiling she hasn\u2019t shattered. In the early 1950s, she joined the organization that would one day become <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NASA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NASA<\/a>, and which had only just begun to hire black mathematicians. Her job there was to analyze data and calculate the complex equations needed for successful space flights. As a black woman in an era of brutal racism and sexism, Katherine faced daily challenges and often wasn\u2019t taken seriously by the scientists and engineers she worked with. But her colleagues couldn\u2019t ignore her obvious gifts\u2014or her persistence. Soon she was computing the trajectory for <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mercury-Redstone_3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alan Shepard\u2019s first flight<\/a> and working on the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Apollo_11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apollo 11<\/a> mission that landed the first men on the moon. Katherine\u2019s life has been a succession of achievements, each one greater than the last.<\/p>\n<p>Katherine Johnson\u2019s story was made famous in the bestselling book and Oscar-nominated film <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hidden_Figures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Hidden Figures<\/em><\/a>. Now in <em>Reaching for the Moon<\/em> she tells her own story for the first time, in a lively autobiography that will inspire young readers everywhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The inspiring autobiography of NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, who helped launch Apollo 11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[395,11,8,17,20,25],"tags":[29283,9574,19570,19571,19572,19573],"class_list":["post-57324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiography","category-books","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-usa","category-women","tag-atheneum-books","tag-atheneum-books-for-young-readers","tag-katherine-coleman-goble-johnson","tag-katherine-johnson","tag-nasa","tag-national-aeronautics-and-space-administration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57324","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=57324"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58854,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57324\/revisions\/58854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}