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NASA research mathematician Katherine Johnson is photographed at her desk at Langley Research ... were responsible for the number-crunching of launch windows, trajectories, fuel consumption and other ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Former NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson is seen after President Barack Obama presented her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Nov. 24, 2015, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White ...

LEWISBURG, WV (WVNS) – Katherine Johnson was born on August 26th, 1918, in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. Back at that ...

"Because of your hard work little girls EVERYWHERE can dream as big as the MOON," the actress, who played Katherine Johnson, said of the mathematician Taraji P. Henson is paying her respects to ...