Katherine Johnson

D.O.B

Died

Monday August 26, 1918

Monday February 24, 2020

Next unlived
birthday in

Age in day of death

101

years

months

days

Age if still alive

108

years

months

days

Basic information

AKA
Creola Katherine Coleman, Katherine Goble
Category
ScientistOthers
Country
United States
Birth place
White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, U.S.
Pioneering mathematician, she figured out the paths for the spacecraft to orbit (go around) Earth and to land on the Moon.
She did trajectory analysis for Alan Shepard's Freedom 7 mission in May 1961, America's first human spaceflight.
NASA human computer who calculated trajectories for Apollo space mission by hand. She works also on the the Space Shuttle and the Earth Resources Technology Satellite (Landsat), and others reports.
One of the first African-American women to work as a NASA scientist
Worked for NACA, NASA (1953–1986) 33 years. Worked as an aerospace technologist for 13 years until her retirement in 1986.
Died as 101 years old.
She has a building named after her at NASA, at the space agency's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. (The Katherine G. Johnson Computational Research Facility)

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Interesting calculations/facts about Katherine Johnson

Generation: The Greatest Generation (1901-1927)

Zodiac sign: Virgo ♍ (August 23 - September 22)

Chinese zodiac sign:

Nr. of Heartbeats: 4,551,091,200

Nr. of Breaths: 924,440,400

Nr. of blinks (with 8 hours of sleep every day): 639,997,200

Hair length (if it was never cut): 1,646 cm or 16.46 meters (54 feet 0.1 inches)

Nail length (if it was never cut): 4,609 mm or 4.61 meters (15 feet 1.5 inches)

Animal Age

How old Katherine Johnson would be if they were an animal.

Dog

18.28 years

Cat

22.85 years

Turtle

269.65 years

Horse

41.13 years

Cow

30.47 years

Elephant

73.12 years

Planet Age

How old Katherine Johnson would be if they were born on a different planet

Mercury

449.09 years

Venus

175.82 years

Mars

57.51 years

Jupiter

9.11 years

Saturn

3.67 years

What happened on Katherine Johnson birthday

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What happened on Katherine Johnson day of death

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Katherine Johnson - Celebrations from his DOB

41 days from now, December 4, 2026, Katherine Johnson celebrate 176^th Venus age
51 days from now, December 14, 2026, Katherine Johnson celebrate 270^th turtle age
63 days from now, December 26, 2026, Katherine Johnson celebrate exactly 1300 months
77 days from now, January 9, 2027, Katherine Johnson celebrate exactly 57,000,000 minutes
77 days from now, January 9, 2027, Katherine Johnson celebrate exactly 950,000 hours
80 days from now, January 12, 2027, Katherine Johnson celebrate 450^th Mercury age
124 days from now, February 24, 2027, Katherine Johnson celebrate 109^th half birthday
168 days from now, April 10, 2027, Katherine Johnson celebrate 451^st Mercury age
198 days from now, May 10, 2027, Katherine Johnson celebrate 271^st turtle age
256 days from now, July 7, 2027, Katherine Johnson celebrate 23^rd cat age
256 days from now, July 7, 2027, Katherine Johnson celebrate 452^nd Mercury age
266 days from now, July 17, 2027, Katherine Johnson celebrate 177^th Venus age

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