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Summary
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Katherine Johnson had outstanding math skills and skipped
some grades at school. In 1953, she started working for NASA .
People called her a “computer” because of the calculations she did
by hand. She did calculations for the moon landing and for
sending the Space Shuttle into space. In 2015, she received a
special prize from the government. In 2016, Hidden Figures,
a movie about her and other African-Americans at NASA, came out.
did calculations working for NASA
a movie about her outstanding math skills
Unit 9 | A Hidden Figure
