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Looking Skyward: Katherine Johnson, Mars Lander, and An Early View

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Katherine Johnson in 2018 attending Research Facility Opening at NASA Langley.

On this edition of Looking Skyward, WCAI's John Basile talks to Regina Jorgenson of the Maria Mitchell Observatory on Nantucket about the remarkable life of Katherine Johnson, what NASA'a Mars lander is telling us.....and the early view of a far-distant object in space.

Looking Skyward airs every other Thursday on WCAI.

John Basile is the local host of All Things Considered weekday afternoons and a reporter.