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West Virginia University Libraries and the West Virginia and Regional History Center will celebrate the life and legacy of the NASA mathematician and space pioneer Katherine Johnson in the Downtown

In the spirit of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, I want to dedicate this post to a Black leader whose contributions changed our country, our world and really, our entire universe: Katherine Johnson.

From the first female engineer being hired in 1939 all the way to the first-ever all-female spacewalk in 2019, women have been integral to advancing NASA.

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.

Cygnus launches atop the Antares rocket from NASA Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia (NASA)   As Cygnus approaches the International Space Station, it will be grappled by the crew using the station’s robotic arm, and then installed on the bottom side of the station’s Harmony node. After delivering cargo to the station, Cygnus will destructively re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere. It is Northrop Grumman’s 15th resupply mission to the ISS.  What were Johnson’s contributio...