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A Hidden Figure

While at NASA, Johnson

completed calculations that

v.
to release a vehicle into the air or space
launch
helped launch American

astronaut John Glenn into space. Glenn requested that

the act of going from the sky to the ground after a flight
n.
landing
Johnson personally check the calculations for his landing

before he took off for space. In 1969, Johnson did math

that helped Americans land on the moon. She also did

n.
the curved path an object follows around a planet
orbit
math to help send the Space Shuttle into orbit a few years

later.

Unit 9 | A Hidden Figure