Katherine Johnson

NASA Research Mathematician 🚀

[Katherine Johnson @katjohn1918]

Thank you for everyone who attended my funeral on 02/24/2020 🥳🤧

[Katherine Johnson @katjohn1918]

John Glenn trust me so much he once said “If she says they're good, then I am ready to go.”

[Katherine Johnson @katjohn1918]

Decided to retire in 1986. I wanna travel ✈️

[Katherine Johnson @katjohn1918]

The movie Hidden Figures was based off me. Could’ve played the role myself 🙄

[Katherine Johnson @katjohn1918]

They called me the human computer 🖥

[Katherine Johnson @katjohn1918]

Rip my husband, James Francis Goble, thanks for leaving me w kids and no job at the time ❤️

[Katherine Johnson @katjohn1918]

Did sum quick math and calculated trajectories that led the Apollo 11 to the moon 👍

[Katherine Johnson @katjohn1918]

Just launched the first astronaut into space !!!

[Katherine Johnson @katjohn1918]

Presidential medal of freedom from THE president 🏅

[Katherine Johnson @katjohn1918]

Check out my book 📚

[Katherine Johnson @katjohn1918]

Did you know I was rejected when I first applied for NASA . Look who want me now 🙄

[Katherine Johnson @katjohn1918]

Another day at work - figured out the path for spacecrafts to orbit earth and land on the moon 🌙🥱

[Katherine Johnson @katjohn1918]

Just got a job at Nasa as the 1st black female engineer !!

[Katherine Johnson @katjohn1918]

“You are no better than anyone else, and no one is better than you.”

Except me.

[Katherine Johnson @katjohn1918]

My fam

[Katherine Johnson @katjohn1918]

one of the first three African American students to enroll in West Virginia University .. at 15 😎

[Katherine Johnson @katjohn1918]

Returned to White Sulphur Springs, WV, my birthplace . Feels just like home … without the segregation 😌

[Katherine Johnson @katjohn1918]

Born August 26, 1918 but don’t look a day over 20 🤪