Johnson worked on a number of crucial NASA missions including Apollo 11.
BOILER-PIPE: Glenn was the first American to orbit the Earth. Johnson was also part of a team that performed calculations for the 1969 Apollo 11 mission. That spaceflight landed Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon.
via Getty Images NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson is accompanied by actresses Janelle Monae , Taraji P. Henson and Octavia Spencer as they present onstage at the 89th Oscars on February 26, 2017, in Hollywood, California. Johnson retired from NASA in 1986 . In 2015, President Barack Obama awarded her a Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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