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HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 26

(By Delegates Pyles, Caputo, Pethtel, Longstreth, Upson, Fleischauer, Lynch, Williams, Summers, Statler, Frich, Mr. Speaker, Mr. Armstead, Ambler, Arvon, Atkinson, Baldwin, Barrett, Blair, Boggs, Brewer, Butler, Byrd, Canestraro, Cooper, Criss, Dean, Deem, DiSerio, Eldridge, Espinosa, A. Evans, E. Evans, Ferro, Folk, G. Foster, Gearheart, Hamilton, Hamrick, Hartman, Higginbotham, Hill, Hornbuckle, Howell, Iaquinta, Isner, Kelly, Lane, Lewis, Love, Lovejoy, Martin, Maynard, McGeehan, Miley, C. Miller, R. Miller, Moore, Moye, O’Neal, Overington, Paynter, Pushkin, Queen, Rodighiero, Rohrbach, C. Romine, R. Romine, Rowan, Rowe, Shott, Sponaugle, Storch, Sypolt, Thompson, Wagner, Ward, Westfall and White)

[Introduced February 24, 2017]

 

Urging Congress and NASA to name the NASA IV & V Facility at Fairmont for West Virginia mathematician Katherine Coleman Johnson.

Whereas, The NASA Independent Verification and Validation Facility was established at Fairmont, West Virginia in 1993 as part of an agency-wide strategy to provide the highest achievable levels of safety and cost effectiveness for mission critical software; and

Whereas, The NASA IV & V Facility was founded under the NASA Office of Safety and Mission Assurance (OSMA) as a direct result of recommendations made by the National Research Council (NRC) and the Report of the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident; and

Whereas, NASA IV & V Facility has 270 permanent employees and high school and college interns during the summer months and makes an important contribution to the Fairmont, Marion County and West Virginia economies; and

Whereas, NASA mathematician Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson was born at White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia in 1918 and graduated from West Virginia State College summa cum laude in 1937 and was the first African American Woman to attend the graduate school at West Virginia University in 1938; and

Whereas, Katherine Johnson worked as a mathematician at the Langley Flight Research Division from 1953 to 1958 where she was an analyst for such topics as gust alleviation for aircraft; and

Whereas, Katherine Johnson worked as an aerospace technologist at the Spacecraft Controls Branch from 1958 to 1986 and was involved in performing calculations for all the important space missions during this period, including the sub-orbital flight of Alan Shepard, the first orbital flight by John Glenn and the 1969 Apollo 11 moon mission; and

Whereas, Katherine Johnson is the subject of a recently released motion picture “Hidden Figures” that highlights her life and career; therefore, be it

Resolved by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That the Legislature urges Congress and NASA to name the NASA IV & V Facility at Fairmont for West Virginia mathematician Katherine Coleman Johnson; and, be it

Further Resolved, That the Clerk of the House of Delegates forward a copy of this   resolution to the President and Secretary of the United States Senate, the Speaker and Clerk of the House of Representatives and to the members of West Virginia’s congressional delegation.

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