Johnson, Darden, Vaughan and Jackson and other Black women at the agency were critical to the success of the early space program. FILE-NASA space scientist, and mathematician Katherine Johnson ...
A group of Black female scientists and mathematicians known as NASA's “Hidden Figures” were honored Wednesday with ...
West Virginia State University is again laying down a wreath in honor of former alum and NASA pioneer Katherine ... to pursue careers in science and technology fields. Johnson worked at NASA ...
House Speaker Mike Johnson is set to host an event Wednesday recognizing several women who contributed to the space race.
The Congressional Gold Medal was presented to the families of Katherine Johnson ... mathematicians at what is now NASA’s Langley Research Center in Virginia. Johnson’s hand-written ...
In 2022, the University of Arkansas Hope-Texarkana established the Dorothy McFadden Hoover "Hidden Figure" Memorial Endowed ...
Though they may never shed the label, the women who worked for NASA as human computers during the space race are no longer ...
Katherine Johnson calculated the trajectory for Alan Shepard’s Freedom 7 mission, the second person and first American spaceflight on May 5, 1961. Katherine Johnson also helped to calculate the ...
The Congressional Gold Medal was presented to the families of Katherine Johnson ... NASA's first Black supervisor and Jackson was NASA’s first Black female engineer. Darden is best known for her sonic ...
Katherine Johnson ... who has worked at NASA for nearly 50 years, is the lead processor for the Apollo sample program. She oversees the Moon rocks and lunar samples NASA brought back from Apollo, 842 ...