![]() The authoritative record of NPR’s programming is the audio record. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at for further information. SHAPIRO: In 2015, President Obama awarded Katherine Johnson the Presidential Medal of Freedom.īARACK OBAMA: In her 33 years at NASA, Katherine was a pioneer who broke the barriers of race and gender - showing generations of young people that everyone can excel in math and science and reach for the stars.Ĭopyright © 2018 NPR. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer) and Mary Jackson (Janelle Mone)-brilliant African-American women working at NASA, who served as. There's no such thing as a dumb question. But if you want to know, you ask the question. JOHNSON: Girls, some of them are reluctant to ask questions. And if you are not in my class, I'm going to come and find you.ĬHANG: Johnson, in that same interview, says she thinks many more women could find careers in math. JOHNSON: I was walking across the campus, and I met a math teacher who said, I'm coming back to teach math this year. This weekend, before her 100th birthday, the school unveiled a statue of her on campus.ĬHANG: She was a double major in French and math. 'Because of your hard work little girls EVERYWHERE can dream as big as the MOON,' the actress, who played Katherine Johnson, said of the mathematician.Subscr. Henson Honors Katherine Johnson, Late NASA Icon She Portrayed In 'Hidden Figures'' on NBC.com. She graduated from high school at the age of 14 and from West Virginia State at the age of 18. Watch Access Hollywood interview 'Taraji P. SHAPIRO: That's Johnson in a 2011 interview with public television station WHRO. KATHERINE JOHNSON: And he always said, you will go to college. Katherine Johnson's memory is living on thanks in part to the A-list star who played her on the big screen. Her father made sure she went to high school and beyond. Katherine Johnson, NASA mathematician Taraji P. As a little girl, she loved to count everything. TARAJI P HENSON: (As Katherine Johnson) OK, so that puts your landing on at 5.0667 degrees north, 77.3333 degrees west.ĬHANG: Katherine Johnson grew up in West Virginia, in the segregated South. #Katherine johnson nasa taraji p henson movieSHAPIRO: The work of Johnson and her fellow black female colleagues became better known after the 2016 book and movie "Hidden Figures." Johnson was played by Taraji P. Hidden Figures is a 2016 American biographical drama film directed by Theodore Melfi and written by Melfi and Allison Schroeder. She also verified the trajectories for the Apollo lunar missions. John Glenn asked for her to personally check the trajectories for his Friendship 7 orbit. Henson Handed Out Cookies After Her Golden Globe Win. Katherine Johnson figured out the trajectories for NASA's first manned launch. She's one of the mathematicians who helped get the U.S. Katherine Johnson was born on Augmeaning, yesterday was her one hundredth birthday. Henson plays Katherine Johnson, a math savant who calculated rocket trajectories for, among other spaceflights, the Apollo trips to the moon. ![]()
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