History & Inspiration
Three Generations of Defiance: The Family That Smuggled Education Through the American South and Sent a Daughter to the Moon
Katherine Johnson's orbital calculations helped carry astronauts safely into space and back. But the more astonishing math might be this: the distance her family traveled — in a single century, across three generations — from the sharecropper fields of West Virginia to the halls of NASA. That journey didn't happen by accident. It happened by design.