84:, on the calculations to simulate vehicle piece impact trajectories (where the booster rockets would fall). According to Lee, Boeing was a diverse place. In an interview for 1010 WINS' with Larry Mullins in 2018, she said: "You had a lot of people there - a lot of people from all different cultures - and we all worked together." According to Johnson, it was only after seeing the 2016 movie
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57:, with three sisters and a brother. She attended school at Moses Jackson, in a segregated neighborhood. Very early, she fell in love with mathematics, and credits this love to her 7th grade maths teacher, Walter B. Simmons. She graduated class valedictorian from high school at
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