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 ...

The daughter of a "Hidden Figure" will represent her mother Saturday evening as she is inducted into the International Air & ...

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 ...

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Without Katherine Johnson ... Which is why Johnson, dubbed the ‘human computer’ after she helped to plan the successful space mission, has had a NASA centre dedicated to 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.

She retired from NASA in 1971. Katherine Johnson calculated trajectories for Alan Shepard, John Glenn, and Apollo 11's flight to the moon. Katherine Johnson began working as a "human computer" at ...

Katherine Diane (Johnson) Martin died on Sunday ... a second mom to many of her kids’ friends and neighbor’s kids, and a friend to nearly everyone she encountered. Kathy spent 13 dedicated ...