Katherine Johnson

You’re Katherine Johnson! You are passionate about your work, and you don’t let anyone or anything get in your way when it comes to achieving your goals. You don’t do it for the recognition, but when people see how you excel when doing what you love, they can’t help but admire you. You’re a tech whiz but can just as easily keep yourself busy solving equations manually by the light of a lovely summer-scented candle. You like to focus on the little details that all work together and keep everything running smoothly, and for this reason, everyone knows they can count on you. And of course, like all NASA employees, you love to travel by spaceship whenever you can (an indisputable fact).

Katherine Johnson was a mathematician and computer for NASA. Her manual calculations were a vital part of the science that made the Apollo missions possible. Johnson, an African American woman, was not widely recognized for her contributions for many decades. A 2016 novel and film, both titled Hidden Figures, told the story of Katherine and other NASA computers, which educated the public on the significant role they had in the success of the famous missions.