“It gives credit to everybody who helped.” “I always like something new,” Johnson said of the facility. The building incorporates energy-saving features that are expected to be 33 percent more efficient than if those features had not been included.State of the art The $23-million, 37,000-square-foot (3,437 square-meter) structure is consolidating four Langley data centers. Johnson’s accomplishments than this building that will bear her name.” “I can’t imagine a better tribute to Mrs. “We’re here to honor the legacy of one of the most admired and inspirational people ever associated with NASA,” said Langley Director David Bowles.
KATHERINE JOHNSON NASA BUILDING MOVIE
“I like the stars and the stories we were telling, and it was a joy to contribute to the literature that was going to come out,” said Johnson, the central character in the book and movie “Hidden Figures.” “But little did I think it would go this far.”
Eventually, she translated that love into using her math skills to help advance the nation’s space program in the 1960s. Johnson held a fascination with numbers as a girl growing up in West Virginia. “When I think of Virginia and the history of what we’ve gone through … you’re at the top of that list.” Terry McAuliffe said during the ceremony. “You have been a trailblazer,” Virginia Gov. 22 with a ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by family and friends of Johnson, her fellow “human computers,” Astronaut Yvonne Cagle, students from Black Girls Code and the 21st Century Community Learning Centers program. Johnson Computational Research Facility, or CRF, was dedicated Sept. Her contributions and those of other NASA African-American human computers are chronicled in “Hidden Figures,” a movie based on author Margot Lee Shetterly’s book of the same name. She worked at Langley from 1953 until retiring in 1986. Johnson was a “human computer” at Langley who calculated trajectories for America’s first spaceflights. NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, has named its newest building after Katherine Johnson.
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