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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

in 1939 and was its first female engineer, working on turbines in wind tunnels and researching supersonic flight. She retired from NASA in 1971. Katherine Johnson calculated trajectories for Alan ...

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 ...

Katherine Diane (Johnson) Martin died on Sunday, November 3 surrounded by loved ones at Norton Hosparus Inpatient Care following a courageous battle with cancer. She always had a propensity to be ...