Feldman, Thea,

Katherine Johnson / You should meet Katherine Johnson. by Thea Feldman ; illustrated by Alyssa Petersen. - Simon Spotlight edition. - 47 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm. - You should meet. Ready-to-read. Level three, Megastar reader! . - You should meet. Ready-to-read. Level three, Megastar reader! .

At head of title: You should meet.

A family to count on -- Math, Katherine's number one love -- A "computer" in a skirt -- Katherine takes off! -- An infinite contribution.

Meet Katherine Johnson, a brilliant mathematician who worked at NASA in the early 1950s until retiring in 1986. Katherine's unparalleled calculations (done by hand) helped plan the trajectories for NASA's Mercury and Apollo missions (including the Apollo 11 moon landing). She is said to be one of the greatest American minds of all time.

Age 6-8.

ISBN: 9781534403413 (hardcover) 1534403418 (hardcover) 9781534403406 (paperback) 153440340X (paperback)

Subjects--Personal Names:
Johnson, Katherine G.

Subjects--Corporate Names:
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Physicists--Biography.
Women physicists--Biography.
Mathematicians--Biography.
Women mathematicians--Biography.
African Americans--Biography.
African American women--Biography.
Women--Biography.