Preceden

Modern Figures

Events

Dorothy Johnson Vaughan was born

September 20, 1910

Katherine Johnson was born

Aug. 26, 1918

Mary Winston Jackson was born

April 9, 1921

Dorothy Graduated from the Mathematics, Wilberforce University

1929

Katherine Graduated from West Virginia State College

1937

Mary graduated from Hampton Institute

1942

Dorothy began her career at NACA

December 1943

Johnson began teaching in elementary and high schools in Virginia and West Virginia

1953

Katherine begana career at National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics

1953

Katherine knowledge made her invaluable to her superiors and her assertiveness won her a spot in previously all-male meetings NACA

1958

Mary began her career at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)

1958

Johnson verified the mathematics for John Glenn’s orbit around the Earth

1962

NASA prepared for the orbital mission of John Glenn

1962

John Glenn became the first American to circle the Earth, making three orbits in his Friendship 7 Mercury spacecraft

20 Feb. 1962

Mary helped young kids in the science club at Hampton’s King Street Community

1970 - 1979

Dorothy retired from NASA

1971

Mary Jackson was named Langley’s Volunteer of the Year

1976

Mary left engineering and took a demotion to fill the open position of Langley’s Federal Women’s Program Manager

1979

Mary retired from Langley

1985

Katherine Johnson retired

1986

Mary Jackson died

February 11, 2005

Dorothy Vaughan died

November 10, 2008

President Obama awarded Katherine Johnson the Presidential Medal of Freedom,

2015