She was part of the team who helped launch the first American orbit around the Earth, and her pioneering contributions to the field were represented in the 2016 film. Ansari was the first Iranian and first Muslim woman in space. Nasa mathematician Katherine Johnson, who was the inspiration for film Hidden Figures, has died at the age of 101. Geometry is still an important part of who she is, a. 24, 2020, at her home in Newport News, Virginia, at the age of 101. I see a picture right now thats not parallel, so Im going to go straighten it. In the 1950s, NASA began to have more openings for African-American women. Pioneering African-American Nasa mathematician Katherine Johnson has died at the age of 101. And in 2019, she was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal. Katherine Johnson was born in 1918 in West Virginia and always had a passion. Image caption, Katherine Johnson was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015. The sci-fi film about Earth's first contact with an alien race was nominated for eight Oscars and won for Best Sound Editing (Sylvain Bellemare).Īnousheh Ansari, who funded her own trip to the International Space Station in September 2006, and Firouz Naderi, the former director for solar system exploration at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, accepted the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film for "The Salesman," on behalf of Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, who did not attend in protest of the travel ban put into place by President Donald Trump. In 2017, NASA Langley Research Center named its new Computational Research Facility in her honor. Northrop Grumman traditionally names its spacecrafts after pivotal figures in space exploration history. The craft carrying her name will travel to the International Space Station in February 2021. " Arrival," the second highest-grossing Best Picture nominee, came away from the night having fared slightly better. In honor of her achievements, the aerospace and defense company Northrop Grumman has named a new NG-15 Cygnus cargo craft the S.S. " Passengers," the Morten Tyldum-directed science fiction film about two people (Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt) who are awoken early on an interstellar trip to an exoplanet, had been nominated for Best Production Design and Best Original Score, but like "Hidden Figures" did not win. Image Credit: NASA/ARC Published: JKatherine Johnson and other 'Human Computers' played an integral role in the early days of Americas space program.
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