NASA Administrator Charles Bolden presents an award to African American mathematician, physicist, and space scientist Katherine Johnson during a reception to honor members of the segregated Langley Research Center West Area Computers division at the Virginia Air and Space Center December 1, 2016 in Hampton, Virginia. Johnson calculated the flight trajectories for John Glenns first orbital flight in 1962.

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NASA Administrator Charles Bolden presents an award to African American mathematician, physicist, and space scientist Katherine Johnson during a reception to honor members of the segregated Langley Research Center West Area Computers division at the Virginia Air and Space Center December 1, 2016 in Hampton, Virginia. Johnson calculated the flight trajectories for John Glenns first orbital flight in 1962.

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