A "Hidden Figures" mathematician who helped America win the space race was inducted into the International Air & Space Hall ...

She also helped with contingency procedures for Apollo 13 when ... 2016, NASA named a new 40,000 square foot building at the Langley Research Center the Katherine G. Johnson Computational Research ...

Apollo 13's commander Jim Lovell selects music on ... astronauts living for two days on the lunar surface. Experts at Nasa's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, had to figure out a way to ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

Katherine Johnson, pictured here in 1962, spent 33 years working for Nasa When the first computers ... some 50 years after its last sighting. Apollo 13's Lunar Module performed a vital "lifeboat ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit, known for his long-exposure photographs from the International Space Station (ISS), recently ...

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Washington, Katherine Johnson, a woman mathematician who was one of NASA's human "computers" and ... her ahead several grades in school. By 13, she was attending the high school on the campus ...

My name is Katherine Johnson. I am a mathematician for NASA’s space program ... and the first successful manned moon landing (Apollo 11). The ‘space race’ became symbolic of the ideological ...