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For more than 30 years, johnson worked as a nasa mathematician at langley research center in hampton, va. President obama with katherine johnson, after the mathematician received the presidential medal of freedom in 2015. Johnson visited her alma mater west virginia state university, which is commemorating her centennial with a statue, on saturday to celebrate.

Nasa administrator jim bridenstine said.

Anything that could be counted, i did. Johnson was among a group of black women mathematicians who helped power nasa's space travel in the early 1960s when the agency was still segregated. President obama with katherine johnson, after the mathematician received the presidential medal of freedom in 2015. She began working in aeronautics as a computer in 1952, and after the formation of nasa, she performed the calculations that sent astronauts into orbit in the early.