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This NASA handout photo shows NASA Administrator Charles Bolden presenting an award to Katherine Johnson, the African American mathematician, physicist, and space scientist, who calculated flight trajectories for John Glenn's first orbital flight in 1962, at a reception to honor members of the segregated West Area Computers division of Langley Research Center on December 1, 2016, at the Virginia Air and Space Center in Hampton, Virginia. - Katherine Johnson, whose calculations enabled Apollo 11 to land on the moon, died on February 24, 2020 at 101. Her story was told in the film "Hidden Figures." (Photo by Aubrey GEMIGNANI / NASA / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO /NASA/AUBREY GEMIGNANI/HANDOUT " - NO MARKETING - NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS