KATHERINE JOHNSON There’s this lady that I think would be a great role model let’s find out why. First of all her name is Katherine Johnson she was an African-American physicists and mathematician. She worked for NASA, helping the American orbit around Earth and the first man to walk on the moon. She retired from NASA after over 30 years of service. In 2015, she received the government’s highest honor for a civilian called the presidential Medal of Freedom. Her early life was when she was born was 1918 in the little town of White Sulfur Springs, West Virginia, Johnson was a research mathematician. She was simply fascinated by numbers. She was smart too, and by the time she was 10 years old, she was a high