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 ...

President Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom and on May 5, 2016, NASA named a new 40,000 square foot building at the Langley Research Center the Katherine G. Johnson Computational ...

Johnson received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama in 2015. RELATED VIDEO: Former NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson Makes PEOPLE’s List of 25 Women Changing the ...

She also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama in 2015. “I will always be grateful for her,” Johnson’s daughter, Katherine, told PEOPLE in 2016 of her mother.