Answer:In the article, "Hidden Figures", three African American women were highlighted for their contributions to NASA's space program during the 1960s.
To answer your question, Katherine Johnson is the one who became an aeronautical engineer. She played a significant role in calculating trajectories, launch windows, and emergency return paths for many space missions, including the first human spaceflight by an American astronaut, Alan Shepard, and the first human spaceflight to orbit the Earth by John Glenn.