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elleng

(130,908 posts) Fri Oct 9, 2020, 07:14 PM Oct 2020

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She helped send Apollo to the moon. Now she's receiving the same medal

the astronauts accepted 51 years ago.

Katherine Johnson, the trailblazing NASA mathematician, wins the Hubbard Medal for her calculations that made space exploration possible.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/10/katherine-johnson-mathematician-sent-apollo-moon-wins-hubbard-medal/?

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She helped send Apollo to the moon. Now she's receiving the same medal (Original Post) elleng Oct 2020 OP

It's about time. alwaysinasnit Oct 2020 #1

Too bad they couldn't manage to give it to her PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2020 #2

alwaysinasnit

(5,066 posts)

1. It's about time.

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Fri Oct 9, 2020, 07:15 PM

Oct 2020

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,857 posts)

2. Too bad they couldn't manage to give it to her

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Fri Oct 9, 2020, 07:18 PM

Oct 2020

while she was still alive.

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