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Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who was one of NASA’s human “computers” and an unsung hero of the space agency’s early days, died Monday. She calculated the flight path for America’s first space mission and the first moon landing, and she was among the women profiled in the book and movie Hidden Figures. She was 101.
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