{"id":7806,"date":"2020-02-25T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T07:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=7806"},"modified":"2020-02-24T09:56:15","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T15:56:15","slug":"katherine-johnson-nasa-mathematician-portrayed-in-hidden-figures-dies-at-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=7806","title":{"rendered":"Katherine Johnson, NASA Mathematician Portrayed in &#8216;Hidden Figures,&#8217; Dies at 101"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/katherine-johnson-dead-nasa-mathematician-dies-at-101-1280716\">Associated Press<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>NASA says Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who worked on NASA\u2019s early space missions and was portrayed by Taraji P. Henson in the film&nbsp;Hidden Figures, about pioneering black female aerospace workers, has died.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>In a Monday morning tweet, the space agency said it celebrates her 101 years of life and her legacy of excellence and breaking down racial and social barriers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Johnson was one of the so-called \u201ccomputers\u201d who calculated rocket trajectories and earth orbits by hand during NASA\u2019s early years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Until 1958, Johnson and other black women worked in a racially segregated computing unit at what is now called Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. Their work was the focus of the Oscar-nominated 2016 film.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>In 1961, Johnson worked on the first mission to carry an American into space. In 1962, she verified computer calculations that plotted John Glenn\u2019s earth orbits.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associated Press: NASA says Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who worked on NASA\u2019s early space missions and was portrayed by Taraji P. Henson in the film&nbsp;Hidden Figures, about pioneering black female aerospace workers, has died. In a Monday morning tweet, the space agency said it celebrates her 101 years of life and her legacy of excellence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7806"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7807,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7806\/revisions\/7807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}