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電影《關鍵少數》卡薩琳，享年 101歲
（1918年8月26日－2020年2月24日）
生於美國西維吉尼亞州白硫磺泉鎮，物理學家與數學家。在NASA工作時期，利用早期的數位電腦撰寫程式，協助美國太空探測計劃的前進。她精確的計算出天文導航的相關資料，這些資料成為日後美國水星計劃的基礎。
NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, who was the real-life subject of Hidden Figures and helped Apollo 11 land on the moon, has died aged 101
In 1961, Johnson did trajectory analysis for Alan Shepard's Freedom 7 Mission, the first to carry an American into space.
In 1962, she manually verified calculations by a nascent NASA computer for astronaut John Glenn's groundbreaking orbital mission as the US beat the Soviet Union (USSR) in the Space Race.
'Get the girl to check the numbers,' a computer-skeptical Glenn had insisted in the days before the launch.
Seven years later Johnson calculated the precise trajectories that allowed the Apollo 11 mission to land on the moon in 1969 before the world watched Neil Armstrong's historic moonwalk.
Johnson considered her work on the Apollo moon missions to be her greatest contribution to space exploration.
She also worked on the Space Shuttle program before retiring in 1986.
Johnson spent her later years encouraging students to enter the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Looking back, she said she had little time to worry about being treated unequally.
'My dad taught us: "You are as good as anybody in this town, but you're no better,"' Johnson told NASA in 2008.
'I don't have a feeling of inferiority. Never had. I'm as good as anybody, but no better.'
