Get to know the woman who made many of NASA's early missions possible
in this fascinating, nonfiction Level 3 Ready-to-Read, part of a series
of biographies about people "you should meet!"
Meet Katherine Johnson, a brilliant mathematician who worked at NASA in
the early 1950s until retiring in 1986. Katherine's unparalleled
calculations (done by hand) helped plan the trajectories for NASA's
Mercury and Apollo missions (including the Apollo 11 moon landing). She
is said to be one of the greatest American minds of all time.
A special section at the back of the book includes extras on subjects
like history and math, plus inspiring careers for math lovers. With the
You Should Meet series, learning about historical figures has never been
so much fun!