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NASA dedicates facility to Mathematician

| | Apr 29, 2016, at 03:13 pm
Washington, Apr 29 (IBNS) NASA will commemorate the many contributions of retired mathematician Katherine Johnson to America’s space program during a building dedication ceremony at 2 p.m. EDT Thursday, May 5 -- the 55th anniversary of Alan Shepard's historic rocket launch and splash down, which Johnson helped make possible.

The ceremony will air live on NASA Television and the agency’s website.

At the agency’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, the new Katherine G. Johnson Computational Research Facility will formally be dedicated to the venerated mathematician and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient.

Delivering the keynote at Thursday’s event will be Margot Lee Shetterly, author of the book Hidden Figures, which chronicles the many achievements of Johnson’s 33-year NASA career, as well as those of other African-American NASA mathematicians.

Image: NASA
 

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