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The Swinging Light

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2017•48 pages•Published•ENG•User Reviews

Katherine Johnson

byThea Feldman
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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.

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The Swinging Light

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First Published

2017

Pages

48 pages

Rating

5.0 / 5

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1

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2

Publisher

Simon Spotlight

Language

ENG

Status

Published

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Thea Feldman

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