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Katherine G. Johnson has worked for
NASA with the tracking teams of manned and unmanned orbital missions. Ms.
Johnson is an Aerospace Technologist at the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration's Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia. Trained as
a mathematician and physicist in West Virginia, she has worked on challenging
problems of interplanetary trajectories, space navigation, and the orbits
of spacecraft. The spacecraft include the Earth Resources Satellite, which
has helped locate underground minerals and other earth resources. Ms. Johnson
analyzed data gathered by tracking stations around the world during the
lunar orbital missions -- the Apollo moon missions. Later, she studied
new navigation procedures to determine more practical ways to track manned
and unmanned space missions. For her pioneering work in the field of navigation
problems, she was the recipient of the Group Achievement Award presented
to NASA's Lunar Spacecraft and Operations team. |
