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 the age of 101. Nasa announced her death on Twitter, saying it was celebrating her life and honouring "her legacy of ...

But first, he insisted that Katherine Johnson double-check the electronic ... In fact, it was Mary Jackson, a NASA engineer also featured in the movie who did so. Johnson instead used the ...

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.

Although they may never completely shed the label, the women who worked for NASA as human computers ... Christine Darden and posthumously to Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson and Dorothy Vaughan.

The "Hidden Figures" were considered crucial to NASA's work from 1930-1970. They were mathematicians and engineers who ... Three of the women — Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary ...

Washington, Katherine Johnson, a woman mathematician who was one of NASA's human "computers" and ... 1958 document "Notes on Space Technology". Engineers from those groups formed the core of ...

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.

The street outside Nasa's headquarters has been named "Hidden ... a nod to the title of a book and film about the lives of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson.