Sometimes good and bad people come into the world, but Katherine Johnson was one of the great people. Katherine Johnson came into this world in 1918 in West Virginia. She was a mathematician and was the best at geometry. She was so smart she was able to graduate high school when she was only 15 and college when she was 18. Her first husband died from brain cancer. That led to her being a widow and working for her and her 3 kids. Through all of the hardship she went through she still made a difference in the NASA space program. Katherine Johnson deserves to be honored on the stamp because of her accomplishments during her career, the obstacles she had to overcome as an African American, and her lasting effect on civil rights and science.
Katherine Johnson had great accomplishments during her career. First, Katherine Johnson came to work for
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Katherine Johnson helped NASA put an astronaut in orbit around the earth. She also put a man on the moon (may). Katherine Johnson sent astronaut John Glenn in the first orbital flight on Friendship 7 (steelhammer). Through working as a human computer when she helped work on sending people to the moon she was the main person who did the math. She found the space paths that lead to someone to land on the moon. In addition, ”she left behind a massive legacy and inspiration for generations to come”(steelhammer). She has given people hope on being able to do the impossible. She has left us important science knowledge to look back on and improve for the next time. She also set the standards that everyone can work on a project no matter their race or gender. Nonetheless, Katherine Johnson was able to leave an inspiring force on the civil rights movement with her great things she did for science. Without Katherine Johnson standing up to all the white men, black women and women in general would not work for NASA, or be as accepted as they are