Hosted by the Speaker, the ceremony brought together other representatives and senators, NASA officials and the families of ...

Ms Johnson calculated rocket trajectories and Earth orbits for ... You changed the narrative... Godspeed, Katherine Johnson," she wrote on Twitter. Former US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton ...

In 1962, John Glenn sat in his capsule waiting for his rocket engines to light-up and lift him to space. But first, he insisted that Katherine Johnson double-check the electronic computer’s ...

NASA's "Hidden Figures," whose work helped put men on the moon, were honored Wednesday in a Congressional Gold Medal ceremony ...

"They actually laid the very foundation upon which our rockets launched and our astronauts flew and our nation soared." ...

The Black NASA female mathematicians and aeronautical engineers referred to as the "Hidden Figures" were awarded the ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Wednesday, the late Katherine Johnson was honored with a Congressional Gold Medal at the United States Capitol in Washington D.C. Johnson, the White Sulpher Springs native and ...

NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, celebrated in ‘Hidden Figures,’ dead at 101 Johnson was one of the so-called “computers” who calculated rocket trajectories and earth orbits by hand ...

Katherine Johnson, pictured here in 1962 ... Just over two hours later, during its second orbit, the rocket's third stage fired again to boost Apollo towards the moon - the so-called Trans ...

My name is Katherine Johnson. I am a mathematician for NASA ... How heavy will the rocket be? How fast will it be moving? What angle does it need to travel at? All these things need to be ...

NASA has been hosting student workshops in its Katherine Johnson Independent Verification and Validation Facility in Fairmont ...

A group of Black female scientists and mathematicians known as NASA's “Hidden Figures” were honored Wednesday with ...