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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

You see that light, moving across the sky? It doesn’t look like much now, does it? But actually, up there, that’s a spacecraft. And the man inside it – well, he’s a gentleman I work with.

"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 ...