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Katherine Johnson (You Should Meet)

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Get to understand the woman who made many of NASA’s early missions conceivable on this fascinating, nonfiction Level 3 Able-to-Read, a part of a series of biographies about people “you Must meet!”

Meet Katherine Johnson, a brilliant mathematician who worked at NASA within 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 crucial greatest American minds of all time.

A special section in the back of the book includes extras on subjects like history and math, plus inspiring careers for math lovers. With the You Must Meet series, learning about historical figures has never been such a lot fun!

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