Katherine Johnson was, for a time, one of the great unsung American heroes of the space race. The mathematician, who passed away on Feb. 24 at the age of 101, worked at NASA during in the 1950s ...

Katherine Johnson played a pivotal role in the Space Race. Katherine Johnson was a NASA mathematician who played a key role in several NASA missions during the Space Race, including calculating ...

Katherine Johnson, the woman who hand-calculated the trajectory for America’s first trip to space, turns 100 today. Before the arrival of electronic data processors, aka, computers in the 1960s ...

Katherine Johnson, the venerated NASA mathematician who was depicted in the film “Hidden Figures,” died Monday, NASA said. She was 101. “Ms. Johnson helped our nation enlarge the frontiers ...

Katherine Johnson spent decades working behind the scenes at NASA as a human “computer,” calculating the equations for sending Americans into space. The 2016 movie ‘Hidden Figures’ told ...