Katherine Johnson, the pioneering NASA mathematician and computer scientist whose work was integral to the Apollo 11 mission to the moon, will release an autobiography for young readers next year.

NEW YORK — Astronaut Yvonne Cagle had a critical job to perform in February: Escort 98-year-old mathematician Katherine Johnson across the country to the Academy Awards to be honored alongside ...

The Northrop Grumman Antares rocket, with Cygnus resupply spacecraft aboard, launches from Pad-0A, Saturday, Feb. 20, 2021, at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Northrop Grumman’s ...

Pioneering NASA mathematician Katherine Coleman Johnson of "Hidden Figures" fame was always at the front of the class. Born on Aug. 26, 1918, in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, the iconic ...

HAMPTON, Va. — Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who calculated rocket trajectories and Earth orbits for NASA’s early space missions and was later portrayed in the 2016 hit film “Hidden ...

NASA celebrated Katherine Johnson for breaking down racial and social barriers on Monday. ... (rocket) trajectories," Johnson told The Virginian-Pilot newspaper in 2012. ... The next year, ...

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 t… ...

Katherine Johnson, a NASA mathematician on early space missions who was portrayed by Taraji P. Henson in the 2016 film 'Hidden Figures,' has died. She was 101.

The next year, her research was ... from rocket propulsion to orbital mechanics and heat protection. ... Katherine Johnson, mathematician, born 26 August 1918, died 24 February 2020 ...

Mrs. Johnson, who died Feb. 24 at 101, went on to develop equations that helped the NACA and its successor, NASA, send astronauts into orbit and, later, to the moon. In 26 signed reports for the ...

In the early 1950s, Katherine Johnson was thrilled to join the organization that would become NASA. As a mathematician, she worked on many of NASA's biggest projects including the Apollo 11 ...