LEWISBURG, WV (WVNS) – Katherine Johnson was born on August 26th ... their mother put the stars in the sky while helping NASA reach them.

Without Katherine Johnson ... Which is why Johnson, dubbed the ‘human computer’ after she helped to plan the successful space mission, has had a NASA centre dedicated to her.

You see that light, moving across the sky? It doesn’t look like much now, does it? But actually, up there, that’s a spacecraft. And the man inside it – well, he’s a gentleman I work with.

Former NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson is seen after President Barack Obama presented her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Nov. 24, 2015, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White ...