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

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

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.

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 ...

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.

Washington, Katherine Johnson, a woman mathematician who was one of NASA's human "computers" and inspiration for the acclaimed movie "Hidden Figures", passed away on Monday. She was 101.

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 ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has returned new images of Jupiter after its 66th close flyby as it enters the final year of its mission. The $1 billion spacecraft completed its latest close flyby on Oct ...