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Katherine Johnson

Katherine Johnson is a NASA mathematician who helped calculate the trajectory for the Mercury and Apollo missions. Without her, John Glenn might’ve not boarded the Friendship 7. Her work, and that of Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson, was recently brought to light in the film Hidden Figures.

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