{"id":647252,"date":"2020-02-24T11:22:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T15:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=647252"},"modified":"2020-02-24T11:22:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T15:22:00","slug":"katherine-johnson-nasa-mathematician-and-an-inspiration-for-hidden-figures-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=647252","title":{"rendered":"Katherine Johnson, NASA Mathematician And An Inspiration For &#039;Hidden Figures,&#039; Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/ap_17058111892412_wide-73d7e8bec6506649da63f2460f908dfac5c6f52b.jpg\" alt=\"NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, pictured at the 2017 Academy Awards, was one of the women profiled in the book and film Hidden Figures. She died Monday at 101.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Johnson was one of NASA&#8217;s human &#8220;computers&#8221; and wrote trajectory equations for missions in the space agency&#8217;s early days. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: Jordan Strauss\/Invision\/AP)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/npr-rss-pixel-5.png\" \/>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/02\/24\/517784975\/katherine-johnson-nasa-mathematician-and-an-inspiration-for-hidden-figures-dies?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=space\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Katherine Johnson, NASA Mathematician And An Inspiration For &#8216;Hidden Figures,&#8217; Dies<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: NPR Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johnson was one of NASA&#8217;s human &#8220;computers&#8221; and wrote trajectory equations for missions in the space agency&#8217;s early days. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015. (Image&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genaero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=647252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=647252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=647252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=647252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}