What Matters - Katherine Johnson: NASA Pioneer and "Computer"

WHRO Public Media · 626K views · 2011 · 26:04

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An interview with Katherine Johnson, a pioneering African-American mathematician at NASA who calculated trajectories for early space missions.

Linked by 9 independent sites, 2 of them widely read in the 2026-10 crawl of the open web, including unwomen.org, insidehook.com, nwpb.org, blacklikevanilla.com, csteachingtips.org.

Cited in 1 Wikipedia article, including Hidden Figures.