By Cordia Lucas
White Sulphur Springs native Katherine G. Johnson, a retired NASA Langley mathematician, began working at the NASA Langley Research Center in Virginia in 1953 when the National Advisory Committee of Aeronautics (now NASA) had just begun hiring African-Americans.
Read more in the Wednesday, February 10, edition of The West Virginia Daily News.
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