美国宇航局著名数学家凯瑟琳·约翰逊逝世，享年101岁

美国宇航局著名数学家凯瑟琳·约翰逊逝世，享年101岁

Katherine Johnson, a ground-breaking black NASA mathematician whose life was portrayed in the movie Hidden Figures, died on Monday aged 101, the space agency said.

美国国家航空航天局(NASA)称，凯瑟琳约翰逊，一位开创性的美国宇航局黑人数学家，周一去世，享年101岁，其一生被描绘在电影《隐藏的人物》中。

Johnson's calculations helped put the first man on the Moon in 1969, but she was little known until the Oscar-nominated 2016 movie that told the stories of three black women who worked at NASA.

约翰逊的计算帮助人类在1969年登上了月球，但直到2016年奥斯卡提名电影讲述了三个在NASA工作的黑人女性的故事之前，人们对她知之甚少。

"She was an American hero and her pioneering legacy will never be forgotten," NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said, honoring "her courage and the milestones we could not have reached without her."

“她是一位美国英雄，她开创性的遗产将永远不会被遗忘。”美国宇航局局长吉姆·布里登斯汀说，她向“她的勇气和没有她我们无法达到的里程碑”致敬。

Johnson and a colleague were the first to calculate the parameters of the suborbital 1961 flight of astronaut Alan Shepard, the first American in space.

约翰逊和他的同事是第一个计算1961年宇航员艾伦·谢泼德(Alan Shepard)亚轨道飞行参数的人，艾伦·谢泼德是第一个进入太空的美国人。

Her math talents later helped determine the trajectory of the Apollo 11 flight that landed Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the Moon in July 1969.

后来，她的数学天赋帮助确定了1969年7月尼尔·阿姆斯特朗和巴兹·奥尔德林登上月球的阿波罗11号飞行轨迹。

US president Barack Obama presented Johnson with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the country, in 2015.

2015年，美国总统奥巴马向约翰逊颁发了美国最高平民荣誉——总统自由勋章。