

Yes, our black women have come a long way from computational mechanics. Wyche is responsible for over 10,000 people. Not only is she the Deputy Director, but she is second in Command of the Houston Space Facility. Wyche is currently NASA’s Deputy Director of the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. He died with six other brave astronauts, one being Sharon Christa McAuliffe, a payload specialist and a school teacher. And, as you are aware, Ronald McNair, a black astronaut and physicist was killed when Challenger disintegrated nine miles above the Atlantic Ocean 73 seconds after liftoff on January 28, 1986. By the way, let me remind you that six African American astronauts have visited the space station during shuttle flights. Jemison orbited the Earth for nearly eight days on September 12–20, 1992. She became the first black woman to travel into space as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour. Jemison is an American engineer, physician, and joined NASA’s astronaut corps in 1987. In 1992, astronaut Mae Jemison became the first black woman in space. Black women would soon become astronauts. Johnson.īut the journey was just beginning. Johnson recently passed away on Februat the age of 101 years old.
KATHERINE JOHNSON NASA CHALLENGER MOVIE
Very few people had ever heard of her until the movie “Hidden Figures.” Ms. In other words, Katherine Johnson was instrumental in America going to the moon. It was her calculations that later helped pioneer the use of IBM mainframe computers to perform the mathematical computations for orbital mechanics.
KATHERINE JOHNSON NASA CHALLENGER MANUAL
She earned a reputation for mastering complex manual calculations (orbital mechanics). Katherine Johnson was one of the first African American women to work at NASA as a scientist. Johnson had a highly successful 35-year career at NASA.

Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe, Kevin Costner, Kirsten Dunst, Jim Parsons, Glen Powell, Mahershala Ali, Karan Kendrick, and Aldis Hodge. Did you see the Hollywood movie “Hidden Figures?” Several famous actors starred in the movie including Taraji P. Let us start with an amazingly smart woman.

A journey from “orbital rocket trajectory computations” to “space flight” to “directing NASA’s Space Center” to “can you guess what comes next?” This is a journey taken by some incredible Black Women. Today, for our “Heritage of Valor” lesson, we will take a very special journey. And this heritage is a “Heritage of Valor.” Let’s continue our study. As we stated, you do not have to be a blood relative in order to share a common heritage. They share a heritage with a person that not only looks like them, but whose parents looked like their parents, and whose grandparents looked like their grandparents. As we revealed in our previous “Heritage of Valor” lesson, our Cornerstone students share an important heritage with one of their own from Detroit, Major Pat Walker Locke.
