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Katherine Johnson was born August 26, 1918 in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia , to Joylette Coleman and, Joshua Coleman
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Katherine Johnson was 10 she passed the eighth grade.
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She graduated from West Virginia at the age of 18
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Katherine Johnson married James Francis Goble 1939–1956
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She began work as a computer at NASA.
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In 1956 her husband died due to an inoperable brain tumor.
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Katherine Johnson married Colonel James A. Johnson.
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Katherine was also part of the team that calculated where and when to launch the rocket for the Apollo 11 mission of 1969, which sent the first three men to the Moon.
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She retired from NASA
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In 2015 she was awarded the U.S Presidential Medal of Freedom
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Katherine Johnson influences my life because she shows young black women that even though people put you down and say you cannot do it that you should not give up.
