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Katherine Johnson, at age 100, is telling her life story
Source: Associated Press
Katherine Johnson, at age 100, is telling her life story
December 20, 2018
NEW YORK (AP) — Retired NASA mathematician Katharine Johnson, who turned 100 last summer, has waited long enough to tell her own story.
Johnson’s “Reaching for the Moon” is an autobiography for middle graders that will be published next fall, Atheneum Books for Young Readers announced Thursday. Johnson was one of the pioneering black women featured in the book and film “Hidden Figures,” in which she was played by Taraji P. Henson. Johnson and such colleagues as Dorothy Vaughan were vital in helping NASA successfully launch flights into space, and eventually to the moon, in the 1960s.
Johnson said in a statement that she wanted young people to believe they could do anything, no matter their race or gender. “I knew who I was and what I was capable of,” she said.
December 20, 2018
NEW YORK (AP) — Retired NASA mathematician Katharine Johnson, who turned 100 last summer, has waited long enough to tell her own story.
Johnson’s “Reaching for the Moon” is an autobiography for middle graders that will be published next fall, Atheneum Books for Young Readers announced Thursday. Johnson was one of the pioneering black women featured in the book and film “Hidden Figures,” in which she was played by Taraji P. Henson. Johnson and such colleagues as Dorothy Vaughan were vital in helping NASA successfully launch flights into space, and eventually to the moon, in the 1960s.
Johnson said in a statement that she wanted young people to believe they could do anything, no matter their race or gender. “I knew who I was and what I was capable of,” she said.
https://apnews.com/2b9e6e534385401392c74e07ee95c4b2
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I can not wait to get a copy for my babies!
I’m also grateful that their story came out in such a fantastic movie.
My only wish is that it had come out 40 years ago. 
... and what she stands for. I love her awesome story and it fits quite well with Michelle Obama's message to today's young women in "Becoming." I'd be very interested in reading Katherine Johnson's autobiography when it comes out.
