Counting the stars : the story of Katherine Johnson, NASA mathematician
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Counting the stars : the story of Katherine Johnson, NASA mathematician
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The work Counting the stars : the story of Katherine Johnson, NASA mathematician represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.
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- Counting the stars : the story of Katherine Johnson, NASA mathematician
- Title remainder
- the story of Katherine Johnson, NASA mathematician
- Statement of responsibility
- text by Lesa Cline-Ransome ; illustration by Raúl Colón ; director, Andy T. Jones
- Title variation
- Story of Katherine Johnson, NASA mathematician
- Subject
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- African American women mathematicians
- African American women mathematicians -- Biography | Juvenile films
- Animated films
- Biographical films
- Biographical films
- Children's films
- Children's films
- Educational films
- African American women
- Johnson, Katherine G
- Johnson, Katherine G -- Juvenile films
- Juvenile works
- Nonfiction films
- Nonfiction films
- Short films
- Short films
- United States, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- United States, National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Biography | Juvenile films
- Women mathematicians
- Women mathematicians -- Biography | Juvenile films
- Film adaptations
- African American women -- Biography | Juvenile films
- Language
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- eng
- eng
- eng
- eng
- Summary
- Before John Glenn orbited the Earth or astronauts walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as "human computers" used their knowledge, pencils, adding machines, and writing paper to calculate the orbital mechanics needed to launch spacecraft. Katherine Johnson was one of these mathematicians who used trajectories and complex equations to chart the space program. Even as Virginia's Jim Crow laws were in place in the early 1950s, Katherine worked analyzing data at the NACA (later NASA) Langley laboratory. In 1962, as NASA prepared for the orbital mission of John Glenn, Katherine Johnson was called upon, and John Glenn said "get the girl" (Katherine Johnson) to run the numbers by hand to chart the complexity of the orbital flight. He knew that his flight couldn't work without her unique skills. President Barack Obama awarded Katherine Johnson the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015, and her incredible life inspired the Oscar-nominated film Hidden Figures
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- TEFMT
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- videorecording
- Dewey number
- 510.92
- Language note
- English dialogue; English read-a-long subtitles; closed-captioned
- LC call number
- QA29.J64
- LC item number
- C55 2019
- PerformerNote
- Narrated by Bahni Turpin
- Runtime
- 21
- Series statement
- Read-a-long
- Target audience
- juvenile
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