NASA research mathematician Katherine Johnson is photographed at her desk at Langley Research Center in 1966.
Johnson made critical technical contributions during her career of 33 years, which included calculating the trajectory of the 1961 flight of Alan Shepard. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Nov. 24, 2015.
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