NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson is one of the nation’s hidden figures. She made history as one of the first Black women to work as a NASA scientist. In 1961, Johnson calculations put the first ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A West Virginia native and previously “hidden figure” in the U.S. space race whose key mathematical contributions to NASA became more publicly known later in her life with help ...

Katherine Johnson, the woman who hand-calculated the trajectory for America's first trip to space, died Monday, according to NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine. Johnson was 101 years old. According to ...

Johnson played a key role in NASA’s voyages to the moon. She helped calculate the trajectory for Alan Shepard’s Freedom 7 mission in 1961. Shepard’s spaceflight was the first for a human from the ...

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Katherine Johnson (née Coleman; August 26, 1918 – February 24, 2020), also known as Katherine Goble, was an American mathematician whose calculations of orbital ...

Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson, the mathematician and physicist whose critical calculations helped fuel NASA’s successful quest to beat Russia in the race to space, has died at the age of 101. For ...

"Because of your hard work little girls EVERYWHERE can dream as big as the MOON," the actress, who played Katherine Johnson, said of the mathematician Taraji P. Henson is paying her respects to ...

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — The daughter of Katherine Johnson, a NASA mathematician and scientist featured in the movie "Hidden Figures", will speak in Winston-Salem on Saturday, Feb. 18 at 11:30 a.m.