Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Katherine Johnson

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OriginalKatherine Johnson coolly calculates her next move. Well, the next move of America's space program. Emphasis on move: She calculated trajectories of manned space missions by hand.
Reason
  • Math - Computers + Katherine Johnson = Man in Space.
  • Math + Computers + Katherine Johnson = Man on Moon.
  • Men in Space + Disaster + Katherine Johnson = Men safely on Earth.

Also, it's a nice action shot. OF MATH!

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Katherine Johnson
FP category for this image
She's a mathematician, but she was applying that math to physics, so I think Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Science and engineering makes sense.
Creator
NASA, restored by Adam Cuerden

Promoted File:Katherine Johnson at NASA, in 1966.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 11:42, 31 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]