Katherine Johnson
(2017)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
READ/BIOGRAPHY/JOHNSON,K

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Kids' Early Readers READ/BIOGRAPHY/JOHNSON,K Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : Simon Spotlight, 2017
©2017
DESCRIPTION

48 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781534403413, 1534403418 :, 1534403418, 9781534403413
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Meet Katherine Johnson, a brilliant mathematician who worked at NASA in the early 1950s until retiring in 1986. Katherine’s unparalleled calculations (done by hand) helped plan the trajectories for NASA’s Mercury and Apollo missions (including the Apollo 11 moon landing). She is said to be one of the greatest American minds of all time

Age 6-8

910L

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