Johnson helped pave the way for NASA achievements. NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, who helped pave the way for the first American astronaut to successfully orbit the Earth, died Monday ...

Katherine Johnson's pioneering contributions to the Space Race were highlighted in the film Hidden Figures, where she was played by Taraji P. Henson Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the ...

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 ...

When Katherine Johnson ­began working at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics in 1953, she was classified as “subprofessional,” not far outranking a secretary or janitor.

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In keeping the legacy of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson alive, we rounded up some things that you need to know about the trailblazers and the work that quite literally ...