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Katherine Johnson: The Black Woman Who Launched America into Space
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Did you know NASA’s first trip to space might’ve failed without a Black woman mathematician? Yeah, before computers, there was Katherine Johnson, the human calculator who did the math no one else could. Follow Forgotten Black Truths so you don’t miss tomorrow’s crazy history story. In the 1960s, when racism and segregation were still law in parts of America, Katherine Johnson worked at NASA, in a section literally called “Colored Computers.” But when the U.S. was desperate to beat Russia to space, it was her brain that turned the tide. When astronaut John Glenn was about to launch into orbit,
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