Black History Month Essay

Black History Month is a celebration in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom for remembrance of important people in history because it was when African americans fought for their rights and stood up for them and demanded equality. There's a lot of africans who were brave and who were famous for it like rosa parks, martin luther king, and frederick douglass and many more. Katherine G. Johnson is one of those brave people she was a pioneer in American space history. A NASA mathematician, Johnson's hard work has influenced every major space programs from Mercury through the Shuttle. She even calculated the flight path for the first American mission space.

Johnson was born August 26, 1918 in West Sulphur Springs,

Taraji P. Henson plays Johnson, Vaughn is played by Octavia Spencer and Jackson is portrayed by Janelle Monae. Vaughn would become the first African-American supervisor at NASA’s predecessor, the
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. Vaughn was a pioneer in computing at the agency. Jackson became NASA’s first Black female aerospace engineer. Johnson was even awarded a medal in 2016 by barack obama.

She was so good at math people called her the human calculator. She counted everything from dishes,steps,leafs and even stars in the sky. She worked years with nasa and the sky was no limiti for katherine. Working closely with engineers Al Hamer and John Young, she provided trajectory work for the Lunar Orbiter Program, which mapped the moon's surface in advance of the 1969 moon landing. Her calculations helped to synchronize Project Apollo's Lunar Module with the moon-orbiting Apollo Command Service Module, and she and Al Hamer collaborated on backup calculations that played a role in the safe return of astronauts in the Apollo 13 mission . She also worked on the Space