Pioneering African-American Nasa mathematician Katherine Johnson ... and social barriers". Ms Johnson calculated rocket trajectories and Earth orbits for Nasa's early space missions.

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

Without Katherine Johnson ... Which is why Johnson, dubbed the ‘human computer’ after she helped to plan the successful space mission, has had a NASA centre dedicated to her.

Therefore, the image of Jupiter circulating on social media was a real photograph taken by NASA's Juno spacecraft, but was modified to enhance its colors and contrast, as encouraged by NASA.

Her calculations played a part in much of early spaceflight ... 2016, NASA named a new 40,000 square foot building at the Langley Research Center the Katherine G. Johnson Computational Research ...

You see that light, moving across the sky? It doesn’t look like much now, does it? But actually, up there, that’s a spacecraft. And the man inside it – well, he’s a gentleman I work with.

A SpaceX Dragon capsule looks a little ghostly in a new image taken from the space station. NASA astronaut Don Pettit snapped ...

NASA: Hampton Takes Flight This exhibit celebrates ... This exhibit features three of these pioneers: Dorothy Vaughan, Katherine Johnson, and Hampton native Mary Jackson. Join hosts Reginald ...

The raw data is sent back to Earth via NASA's Deep Space Network for dozens of citizen scientists to assemble the images into the finished photos you see here. The raw data from Juno takes about ...