![]() William Shelton, former head of Space Command and Peter Singer, who advises the Defense Department on space threats and authored “Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War,” which runs through a scenario of space war.Īmerica is “quietly developing advanced capabilities” that could, some day, have defensive or offensive missions in space, explains a CNN promo on the show. John Hyten, head of US Strategic Command Gen. Half of the Atlas V five-meter fairing is visible in the background. The first X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle waits in the encapsulation cell of the Evolved Expendable Launch vehicle on Apat the Astrotech facility in Titusville, Fla. ![]() ChemCam will shoot its laser at bedrock targets named “West Tremont” and “Eastern Head,” and the Right Mastcam will image the same targets. These activities will take a fair amount of time and power, Herkenhoff adds, but scientists were able to squeeze a few remote science observations into the plan. “Lots of images of the sieve and other parts of CHIMRA will be taken to verify that the system is clean.” “So it’s a “cross-contamination experiment” designed to see if the vibration didn’t do a complete job back when we first drilled Sebina,” Herkenhoff says. “This is motivated by the fact that we only used vibration to transfer that sample from the drill bit assembly into CHIMRA rather than also using percussion. New word from Ken Herkenhoff, also of the USGS, is that the current drill campaign continues to go smoothly.Ī Sol 1535 plan was dominated by an experiment to see if any Sebina sample material is left inside the drill bit chamber from the previous drilling. The full drill hole is planned for Sol 1536, Edgar explains. In 2015, President Barack Obama gave the nation’s highest civilian honor to Johnson.Curiosity Mastcam Right image taken on Sol 1534, November 29, 2016. Johnson also verified the mathematics behind John Glenn’s orbit around the Earth in 1962 and calculated the flight trajectory for Apollo 11’s flight to the moon in 1969. Upon leaving The Flight Mechanics Branch, Johnson went on to join the Spacecraft Controls Branch where she calculated the flight trajectory for Alan Shepard, the first American to go into space in 1959. NACA became the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in 1958. Johnson was assigned to the all-male flight research division and her knowledge made her invaluable to her superiors and her assertiveness won her a spot in previously all-male meetings. In 1953, she joined Langley Research Center (LaRC) as a research mathematician for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). Specialty: Calculating the trajectories for space shots which determined the timing for launches, including the Mercury mission and Apollo 11, the mission to the moon.Įxcerpted from "Hidden Figures: The Untold Story That’s Long Overdue" on .Īfter college, Johnson began teaching in elementary and high schools in Virginia and West Virginia. ![]() Group(s): West Computers Flight Research Division, Spacecraft Controls Branch In 1940, she attended West Virginia University to obtain a graduate degree making her the first African American to enroll in the mathematics program. Full Name: Katherine Coleman Goble Johnsonīirthplace: White Sulfur Springs, West Virginia.Įducation: Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and French from West Virginia State University in 1932.
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