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Why did Lego pull NASA's Katherine Johnson figure?

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LEGO Ideas' “Women of NASA” set was announced recently, showing 4 prominent women from NASA's history: The set includes Margaret Hamilton, Sally Ride, Nancy Grace Roman, and Mae Jemison. read more

LEGO Ideas’ “Women of NASA” set was announced recently, showing 4 prominent women from NASA’s history: The set includes Margaret Hamilton, Sally Ride, Nancy Grace Roman, and Mae Jemison. read more

The Women of NASA Lego set is due to be released in November but it won't include one of the most famous members of the space organization. Commissioned by MIT News deputy editor Maia Weinstock, the set won't see human computer Katherine Johnson among its items. read more

Johnson would go on to work on the Apollo program, too, including performing trajectory calculations that assisted the 1969 moon landing. She would retire from NASA in 1986. In 2015, President Obama gave Katherine Johnson the Presidential Medal of Freedom. read more

Move over Lego Batman, there’s a new superhero in town: former NASA physicist/mathematician Katherine Johnson. The real-life heroine is one of the subjects of Fox’s Best Picture Oscar nominee Hidden Figures and now she’s getting her own Lego figure as part of the Women of NASA set that’s won the Lego Ideas design contest. read more

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