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What were Katherine Johnson's major contributions to NASA? Katherine Johnson
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What were Katherine Johnson's major contributions to NASA?

Katherine Johnson's major contributions to NASA included calculating trajectories, launch windows, and emergency return paths for Project Mercury and Apollo missions. Her work on the calculations for John Glenn's orbital flight in 1962 and the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969 was particularly noteworthy.