The daughter of a "Hidden Figure" will represent her mother Saturday evening as she is inducted into the International Air & ...

Pioneering African-American Nasa mathematician Katherine Johnson has died at ... as a teacher and being a stay-at-home mum, Ms Johnson began working for Nasa's predecessor, the National Advisory ...

Katherine Johnson was working at NASA during the ‘space race’. There was a rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union during the mid-20th century, where both wanted to achieve the ...

But first, he insisted that Katherine Johnson double-check the ... colored women’s bathroom while working at Langley. In fact, it was Mary Jackson, a NASA engineer also featured in the movie ...

Katherine Johnson, pictured here in 1962, spent 33 years working for Nasa When the first computers appeared, many of Nasa's early programmers and coders were these women. The film Hidden Figures ...

She retired from NASA in 1971. Katherine Johnson calculated trajectories for Alan Shepard, John Glenn, and Apollo 11's flight to the moon. Katherine Johnson began working as a "human computer" at ...

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