I want this human computer to check the output of the ... square foot building at the Langley Research Center the Katherine G. Johnson Computational Research Facility. She’ll be celebrating ...

Image courtesy of NASA. There can be no denying that mathematician Katherine Johnson, the NASA human computer who helped John Glenn be the first person to orbit Earth, was exceptional. However, she ...

Without Katherine Johnson, it’s fair to say the astronaut John Glenn wouldn’t have been the first American to orbit the Earth in 1962. Which is why Johnson, dubbed the ‘human computer ...

Katherine Johnson's pioneering contributions to the ... where she was nicknamed the “human computer.” “I like to learn,” she told PEOPLE in 2016. “That’s an art and a science.

Henson is paying her respects to Katherine Johnson, the late NASA mathematician ... where she was nicknamed the “human computer.” “I like to learn,” the mathematician told PEOPLE in ...

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.

Former NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson ... made by an electronic computer for John Glenn’s orbit (first American to orbit the earth), and the 1969 Apollo 11 trajectory to the moon. In her later ...

Image courtesy of NASA. There can be no denying that mathematician Katherine Johnson, the NASA human computer who helped John Glenn be the first person to orbit Earth, was exceptional. However ...