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In 1962, John Glenn sat in his capsule waiting for his rocket engines to light-up and lift him to space. But first, he insisted that Katherine Johnson double-check the electronic computer’s ...

Without Katherine Johnson, it’s fair to say the astronaut John Glenn wouldn’t have been the first American to orbit the Earth in 1962. Which is why Johnson, dubbed the ‘human computer ...

Pioneering African-American Nasa mathematician Katherine Johnson has died at the age of ... whose maths skills helped put US astronaut John Glenn into orbit around the Earth in 1962.

One woman in particular, Katherine Johnson, became known for her work calculating trajectories for the first Americans in space, Alan Shepard and John Glenn, and later for the Apollo Lunar Module ...

Discover captivating biopic films that tell inspiring true stories, bringing real-life heroes and iconic figures to the big ...

This article highlights several inspiring men and women working across academia and industry who are breaking barriers and ...

As authorized by Congress, the medals were bestowed to Christine Darden and posthumously to Katherine Johnson ... U.S. astronaut into Earth orbit, John Glenn. Johnson, who died in 2020 at the ...

The Congressional Gold Medal was presented to the families of Katherine Johnson ... Research Center in Virginia. Johnson's ...