Katherine Johnson’s Math Will Steer NASA Back to the Moon
Mar 04, 2020•7 min
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Episode description
Katherine Johnson blazed trails, not just as a black female mathematician during the Cold War, but by mapping literal paths through outer space. Her math continues to carve out new paths for spacecraft navigating our solar system, as NASA engineers use evolved versions of her equations that will execute missions to the moon and beyond.
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