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NASA research mathematician Katherine Johnson is photographed at her desk at Langley Research ... were responsible for the ...

These women were mathematicians, engineers, and scientists who helped launch the U.S. into the ... and calculate trajectories to the moon. Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson ...

Launch John Glenn’s Friendship 7 John Glenn ... NASA named a new 40,000 square foot building at the Langley Research Center the Katherine G. Johnson Computational Research Facility.

Katherine Johnson, born in 1918 ... to achieve the first significant milestones in space exploration, like the launch of the first artificial satellite (Sputnik), the first human in space ...

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 ...

LEWISBURG, WV (WVNS) – Katherine Johnson was born on August 26th, 1918, in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. Back at that time, Greenbrier County did not offer public schooling for African ...

Retired mathematician Katherine Johnson — whose work inspired Hidden Figures — appeared at Sunday's Academy Awards with the film's cast Adam Carlson is the senior editor for human interest at ...