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 ...

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Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who calculated rocket trajectories and earth orbits for NASA’s early space missions and was later portrayed in the 2016 hit film Hidden Figures, about ...

Without Katherine Johnson, it’s fair to say the astronaut ... she helped to plan the successful space mission, has had a NASA centre dedicated to her. Read more: “Women are powerful in numbers ...

NASA named a new 40,000 square foot building at the Langley Research Center the Katherine G. Johnson Computational Research Facility. She’ll be celebrating her 100th birthday on August 26 ...

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.

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.

The Congressional Gold Medal was presented to the families of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson and Christine Darden at the U.S. Capitol. Darden watched the ceremony from her ...

Washington, Katherine Johnson, a woman mathematician who was one of NASA's human "computers" and inspiration for the acclaimed movie "Hidden Figures", passed away on Monday. She was 101.