NASAs moon landing on July20,1969 possible . Katherine Johnson was born in West Virginia in 1918. During that time African-Americans were made to use separate restrooms, schools ext. then white Americans. Katherine got out of high school at the age of 14 and later enrolled at West Virginia collage, and later became a math teacher.
When Katherine found out that NASA was hiring people to preform flight calculations, she applied for and got the job. When she first started working she was seated seperately from the other women with the same job. As they discovered her talent she was moved to work with a group of white men and women. Thanks to her the landing