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    How much do you know about Illustrious Women of Science?

    Which African-American mathematician and programmer was one of NASA's 'human calculators', whose work was critical to the success of space missions like Apollo 11?

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    Mary Jackson
    Dorothy Vaughan
    Katherine JohnsonCorrect
    Margaret Hamilton

    Katherine Johnson (1918-2020) calculated and verified the trajectories for the Mercury Program and the Apollo 11 mission, fundamental for man's arrival on the Moon.

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