Pioneering African-American Nasa mathematician Katherine Johnson has died at the age of ... new electronic computers before his flight. How black women first started working for Nasa The women ...

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

A West Virginia State University alumna that made her mark on the space industry will be inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame. Mathematician Katherine Johnson played a vital role in ...

The street outside Nasa's headquarters has been named "Hidden ... a nod to the title of a book and film about the lives of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson.

But first, he insisted that Katherine Johnson ... research mathematician but at first, could find only teaching jobs. Then in 1952, a relative mentioned that NACA (the predecessor to NASA) was ...

Without Katherine Johnson ... computer calculations and carried out complex mathematics. At the time, Johnson and other African-American NASA workers were subjected to ‘coloured only’ sections ...

My name is Katherine Johnson. I am a mathematician for NASA’s space program ... Her town did not have a high school for Black children, but despite racial segregation laws, she persevered ...

The Congressional Gold Medal was presented to the families of Katherine Johnson ... The Black women hired worked in a segregated unit of female mathematicians at what is now NASA's Langley ...

Washington, Katherine Johnson, a woman mathematician who was one of NASA's human "computers" and ... high school on the campus of historically black West Virginia State College.