West Virginia State University unveiled this seven-foot bronze statue of NASA mathematician and alumna Katherine Johnson in 2018. It stands on the university campus as a public monument to the woman whose calculations helped make early American spaceflight possible.
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Source: wvstateu.edu/news/west-virginia-state-university-alumnus-creates-las/