Katherine Johnson Contribution To Society

Katherine Johnson has had the most influential impact on society. Her contribution to space exploration has helped shape the space world into what it has turned into today. Her calculations helped sync Project Apollo’s Lunar Lander with the moon-orbiting Command and Service Module. She provided calculations with sending astronauts into space and back. She helped with the Apollo 11 moon trip along with Apollo 13, her contributions to contingency procedures helped ensure a safe return for everyone on board. Due to her extraordinary work, space travel would not have been possible and venturing to the moon would have taken many more years to perfect.

Katherine began working in aeronautics as a “computer” in 1952, and after the formation of NASA, she began performing calculations that sent astronauts into orbit and to the moon in the 1960s. She was later put in charge with determining how to get a human into space and back. Katherine later learned that calculating space flight came down to the basics of geometry

Her tremendous effort has been shown through her work at Nasa. She challenged herself with many different and complicated calculations before the help of computers. However, even then Katherine’s job was incomplete. She was summoned to check the work of the new computers and eventually gave the go-ahead to propel John Glenn into a successful orbit in 1962. From there she worked on calculations for the historic Apollo 11 trip to the moon in 1969, along with the Apollo 13 mission when it experienced its difficulties while in space. Her effort guaranteed a safe trip home for the astronauts. Katherine's astonishing work has helped hundreds of people fly up into space and achieve their dreams of flying to the moon. Her effort at NASA was greatly admired by those around her as she continues to share the amazing story of her experiences at