Katherine Johnson, now a retired NASA research mathematician, was no stranger to geometry. She was the one who would calculate the trajectory of Alan Shepard's 1961 trip into space. This was America's ...

(Reuters) - Katherine Johnson, the black woman whose mathematical genius took her from a behind-the-scenes job in a segregated NASA as portrayed in the film "Hidden Figures" to a key role in sending ...

Katherine Johnson, a former NASA mathematician whose story inspired the movie “Hidden Figures,” has died, NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine said Monday. She was 101. Johnson was born in White Sulphur ...

Taraji P. Henson in Hidden Figures (2016) ; NASA space scientist, and mathematician Katherine Johnson at NASA Langley Research Center in 1966 in Hampton, Virginia. The behind-the-scenes calculations ...

When NASA astronaut John Glenn prepared to orbit Earth in 1962 aboard Friendship 7, he asked for one thing before his mission: “Get the girl to check the numbers.” That “girl” was Katherine Johnson, a ...

Christine Darden, one of the 'human computers” who followed in Johnson's footsteps at NASA Langley, is a frequent visitor and bridge partner at the retirement community in Newport News where Johnson ...