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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who calculated ... In 1961, Johnson did trajectory analysis for Alan Shepard’s Freedom 7 Mission, the first to carry an American into space.

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 ...