Katherine Johnson

nasa nerd 🤓🚀🔭🪐☄️

[Katherine Johnson @kathinmath]

@eddie_hubbs1 wow you’re so cool

[Katherine Johnson @kathinmath]

@eddie_hubbs1 oh you ran track? i relay like you 😏

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retweet if you love the sky

[Katherine Johnson @kathinmath]

did you know my bestie @BarackObama gave me a presidential medal of freedom in 2015 for helping astronauts land safely on the moon in 1969? #hardworkpaysoff

[Katherine Johnson @kathinmath]

did you know i co-authored one of the first textbooks on space while working in nasa’s flight dynamics branch at the langley research center?? 📕📚📝

[Katherine Johnson @kathinmath]

i just finished some light work to solve one of america’s greatest scientific feats: getting apollo 11 to the moon

[Katherine Johnson @kathinmath]

just an average day at work for me… calculated trajectories, launch windows, and emergency return paths for project mercury spaceflights #nobiggie

[Katherine Johnson @kathinmath]

ANNOUNCEMENT!!!! i figured out the paths for a spacecraft to orbit earth and land on the moon 🚀👩‍🚀🌚

[Katherine Johnson @kathinmath]

just a reminder that anything is possible. i was faced w segregation and discrimination, but i still made major discoveries.

[Katherine Johnson @kathinmath]

my home town didn’t offer school for black children, so my entire family moved 120 miles just so i could receive an education #ilovemyfamily #thestruggleisreal

[Katherine Johnson @kathinmath]

joke of the day: what is a mathematician’s favorite type of tree?

a geometree (because they have square roots!)

[Katherine Johnson @kathinmath]

did you know i had a geometry class created just for me?

[Katherine Johnson @kathinmath]

i still can’t believe THE AUDACITY that nasa had when they rejected me the first time i applied 😒 little did they know everything i would do for them in the future #underappreciated

[Katherine Johnson @kathinmath]

did you know nasa dedicated the katherine johnson computational research facility in my honor?? i’m so cool 😎

[Katherine Johnson @kathinmath]

everyone’s invited to my celebration party!!!!!!! 🥳🍾🪅 i became the first woman in my nasa division to receive credit as an author of a research report!!!

[Katherine Johnson @kathinmath]

did you know i graduated from college at 18??? 🎓✏️🤓

[Katherine Johnson @kathinmath]

"you lose your curiosity when you stop learning."

whoever said this spoke the truth… oh wait, it was me

[Katherine Johnson @kathinmath]

@sciencebai Thanks for being THE BEST TEACHER EVERRRRRR Mrs. Wilhite!!!!!!!!

[Katherine Johnson @kathinmath]

how do astronomers organize a party??
they planet it ofc

[Katherine Johnson @kathinmath]

Did you know that THE JOHN GLENN asked me to double check the math of the "new electronic" computations before he went into space???