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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

In 2015, Katherine Johnson was awarded the National Medal of Freedom by President Obama. (9/n) Image: Kevin Dietsch/UPI

Color photo of President Barack Obama presenting Katherine Johnson with the National Medal of Freedom. She is seated in a red wheelchair, wearing a dark blazer and orange blouse. President Obama is leaning over her left shoulder, affixing the medal around her neck. She is looking up at him.

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Then in 2017, NASA’s Langley Research Center named its new Computational Research Facility after her. (10/n)

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NASA Langley’s Katherine Johnson Computational Research Facility Officially Opens - NASA

When she heard that NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, would name its newest building after her, Katherine Johnson responded the only way

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Katherine Johnson passed away in 2020, at the age of 101. Editorial cartoonist Steve Breen’s lovely tribute perfectly captured Johnson’s contributions to the US space program. (11/11) Credit: Steve Breen Source: @sandiegouniontribune.com

Steve Breen's editorial cartoon for the San Diego Union-Tribune shows Johnson working at a blackboard. The equations she writes out in chalk become a stairway that an astronaut in a spacesuit follows to the Moon.

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