But first, he insisted that Katherine Johnson double-check the electronic computer’s trajectory calculations. While that’s the dramatic version of events given in the recent movie, Hidden ...

NASA research mathematician Katherine Johnson is photographed at her desk at Langley Research Center in 1966. Johnson made critical technical contributions during her career of 33 years, which ...

Katherine Johnson's pioneering contributions to the ... a pivotal role in many of NASA’s first space missions — she did trajectory analysis for America’s first human spaceflight in 1961 ...

Katherine Johnson’s calculations directly impacted the trajectory of Alan Shepard’s flight, the first American in space, and John Glenn’s orbital flight. Dorothy Vaughan’s contributions to ...

When Katherine Johnson was little, she loved to count things. By the age of 10, she was in high school. In 1961, she calculated the trajectory of NASA's first ...

Former NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson is seen after President Barack Obama presented ... technical leadership and is known especially for her calculations of the 1961 trajectory for Alan Shepard ...

which included calculating the trajectory of the 1961 flight of Alan Shepard. Image courtesy of NASA. There can be no denying that mathematician Katherine Johnson, the NASA human computer who ...