We want to put a little margin on things. “We want to make sure that we’re there and ready to launch when NASA needs us. While overall production and integration of an Antares/Cygnus mission can take place on a shorter time span, Kurt Eberly, Director Space Launch Programs, Northrop Grumman, related that the additional time is built-in not just for production delays but also to accommodate the potential of NASA requesting an advancement to a launch date, which has happened before. Production for this particular flight began a little more than two years ago with the start of long-lead material purchases and integrated components needed for the Antares rocket and Cygnus spacecraft. This uncrewed resupply mission delivers 3,700 kg to the ISS, consisting of CubeSats, science experiments, Station equipment, and crew supplies. The spacecraft then conducted a rendezvous with the Station two days later, where it was berthed to the Unity module using Canadarm2. WHRO TV.Northrop Grumman kicked off their 2021 launch manifest with the flight of an Antares rocket delivering the Cygnus spacecraft to the International Space Station from Pad 0A at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) on Wallops Island, Virginia at 12:36:50 EST (17:36:50 UTC) Saturday, 20 February 2021. What Matters – Katherine Johnson: NASA Pioneer and “Computer”. I believe students will find this video very informative as well as motivational. Then as you develop that mindset, you only learn if you want to” (WHRO TV, 2011, 17:34).
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Once you learn how to learn you need to want to know what you are learning. Johnson mentions the first step to becoming a life-long learner is, “to learn how to learn. I think this resource would be very valuable for my students, as it may motivate them to embrace their curiosity and desire to learn. Johnson states, “ If you lose curiosity, you stop learning” (WHRO TV, 2011, 17:53). She emphasizes as a child, she had an innate curiosity and feels that desire to learn is what’s missing for most children in today’s society. NASA astronaut, John Glenn would ask NASA to call Johnson to make sure that the calculations from the computers were correct, demonstrating how he implicitly trusted Johnson’s mathematical skills.Īt the end of the interview, Johnson shares her views on children’s desire to learn in today’s society. Another interesting fact about Johnson was her ability to compute mathematical equations by hand, which included plane and spaceship trajectories. In fact, most of Johnson’s children’s knowledge of what she did came from the news. According to her daughter, Katherine Goble Moore, her mother would never brag about what she did. Johnson graduated college at the age of eighteen, and began working at NASA’s Langley Research Center in June of 1953.Īfter watching the interview of Johnson, I was even more amazed by her remarkable mathematical talent, especially her humble attitude towards her accomplishments. Her father worked tirelessly to support her family and send all four children to college. Johnson also reflects on her childhood and how her father was her main inspiration as she thought he was the smartest man she knew. Johnson grew up during a time of segregation, and therefore accepted the segregation as “just the way it was.” Her mathematical skills were so valuable as she was responsible for computing the trajectories, by hand, for where airplanes and spaceships would travel. You had a mission and you worked on it,” stated Johnson (WHRO TV, 2011, 11:30). “I didn’t feel segregation at NASA, because everyone was doing research. This incredible interview highlights Johnson’s upbringing during segregation the individuals who inspired her to pursue a career in mathematics as well as her insight on children’s desire to learn today. On February 25, 2011, Kathy Lewis from WHRO TV, sat down with Katherine Johnson for an exclusive interview to discuss her career at NASA, and how she became interested in mathematics.
During the 1950’s, Johnson made history when she contributed to one of America’s most monumental achievements of sending the first American to the moon. Her talent in mathematics made her one of the most influential African American women at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. She was known as a “human computer,” because of her extraordinary talent in computing mathematical equations.
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