NASA’s pioneering mathematician Katherine Johnson passed away on Monday at the age of 101. Katherine Johnson’s calculations helped get the first Americans to space and back safely.
The real story behind Hidden Figures: NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson - whose career inspired the award-winning movie - lays bare her struggles with racism and sexism in eye-opening posthumous memoir
Johnson s posthumous memoir, My Remarkable Journey, was co-written by Joylette Hylick and Katherine Moore, two of her three daughters
In the book, she recounted how she went from a child prodigy in West Virginia to a NASA employee, detailing the struggles and fears she faced as a black woman
Johnson is remembered as a trailblazer who helped America dominate aeronautics, space research, and computer technology in NASA s early years