In 2019, Johnson was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal by the United States Congress.
Henson as a lead character in the 2016 film Hidden Figures. Katherine Johnson was a human computer at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (later NASA), doing the math that would get Alan Shepard. This documentary includes an interview with Johnson herself, as well as interviews with NASAs chief historian, a curator at the Smithsonians Air & Space. Melvin and a NASA Group Achievement Award. In 2016, she was presented with the Silver Snoopy Award by NASA astronaut Leland D. The Monitor spoke with one of her daughters, Joylette Goble.
In 2015, President Barack Obama awarded Johnson the Presidential Medal of Freedom. NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson’s memoir offers a glimpse into how she found success amid the racism and sexism of her era. She was known as a "human computer" for her tremendous mathematical capability and ability to work with space trajectories with such little technology and recognition at the time. This interview with Johnson's youngest daughter. Her calculations were also essential to the beginning of the Space Shuttle program, and she worked on plans for a mission to Mars. Katherine Johnson, a mathematician on early space missions who was portrayed in film Hidden Figures, has died, NASA reported on Feb. Johnson's work included calculating trajectories, launch windows, and emergency return paths for Project Mercury spaceflights, including those for astronauts Alan Shepard, the first American in space, and John Glenn, the first American in orbit, and rendezvous paths for the Apollo Lunar Module and command module on flights to the Moon.
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