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Johnson, Katherine G -- Juvenile films.
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Biography -- Juvenile films.
Women mathematicians, Black -- Biography -- Juvenile films.
Women mathematicians -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile films.
Mathematicians -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile films.
Women, Black -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile films.
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Johnson, Katherine G -- Juvenile films.
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Biography -- Juvenile films.
Women mathematicians, Black -- Biography -- Juvenile films.
Women mathematicians -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile films.
Mathematicians -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile films.
Women, Black -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile films.
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Counting the stars [videorecording (
DVD
)] : the story of Katherine Johnson, NASA mathematician.
Dreamscape Media, 2019.
Call #:
DVD
510
.92
J67c
Subjects
Johnson, Katherine G -- Juvenile films.
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Biography -- Juvenile films.
Women mathematicians, Black -- Biography -- Juvenile films.
Women mathematicians -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile films.
Mathematicians -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile films.
Women, Black -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile films.
Format:
[videorecording (
DVD
)] :
Description:
1 videodisc (21 min.) : Dolby digital sd., col. ; 12 cm.
Notes:
Based on the book "Counting the stars" written by Lesa Cline-Ransome ; illustrated by Raúl Colón.
Iconographic.
"READ-a-LONG"--Container.
Home use only.
In English with English read-a-long subtitles.
Closed-captioned.
Production:
Director, Andy T. Jones.
Performers:
Narrated by Bahni Turpin.
Summary:
"Before John Glenn orbited the Earth or astronauts walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as 'human computers' used their knowledge, pencils, adding machines, and writing paper to calculate the orbital mechanics needed to launch spacecraft. Katherine Johnson was one of these mathematicians who used trajectories and complex equations to chart the space program. Even as Virginia's Jim Crow laws were in place in the early 1950s, Katherine worked analyzing data at the NACA (later NASA) Langley laboratory. In 1962, as NASA prepared for the orbital mission of John Glenn, Katherine Johnson was called upon, and John Glenn said "get the girl" (Katherine Johnson) to run the numbers by hand to chart the complexity of the orbital flight. He knew that his flight couldn't work without her unique skills. President Barack Obama awarded Katherine Johnson the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015, and her incredible life inspired the Oscar-nominated film Hidden Figures."--Container.
Genre:
Educational films.
Films for the hearing impaired.
DVDs for children.
Other authors:
Cline-Ransome, Lesa.
Cline-Ransome, Lesa. Counting the stars.
Colón, Raúl.
Jones, Andy T.
Turpin, Bahni.
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