My Remarkable Journey A Memoir

Katherine Johnson, Joylette Hylick, Katherine Moore

eBook - 2021

The woman at the heart of the smash hit Hidden Figures tells the full story of her life and her NASA career: "Wonderful." —Library Journal (starred review)In 2015, at age 97, Katherine Johnson became a global celebrity. President Barack Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom—the nation's highest civilian honor—for her pioneering work as a mathematician during NASA's first flights into space. Her contributions to America's space program were celebrated in a blockbuster Academy Award-nominated movie.In this memoir, Katherine shares her personal journey from child prodigy in the Allegheny Mountains of West Virginia to NASA human computer. In her life after retirement, she served as a beacon of light ...for her family and community alike. Her story is centered around the basic tenets of her life—no one is better than you, education is paramount, and asking questions can break barriers. This multidimensional portrait is also the record of a... more