Vaughan was NACA’s first black supervisor and one of its few female supervisors. Dorothy Vaughan became an expert FORTRAN programmer, and she also contributed to the Scout Launch Vehicle Program.

As authorized by Congress, the medals were bestowed to Christine Darden and posthumously to Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson and Dorothy Vaughan. A separate Hidden Figures Congressional Gold Medal ...

Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson. They made significant contributions to space flight in the 1960s. But their successes and struggles were not widely known until decades later. "'Hidden Figures ...

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"Hidden No More: Empowering Women Leaders in ... after return from International Space Station Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson and Christine Darden, who also faced racism and ...

She worked under Dorothy Vaughan - whose story was also told in Hidden Figures - in the segregated West Area Computing Unit at Langley, Virginia. Jackson died in 2005 and in 2019 she was ...

In front of SUB Ballroom A last Wednesday, stacks of books — all provided by the MSU Bookstore — dwindled as the line to ...

This movie seeks to remind the world of the important role that the ‘hidden figures’ of Katherine Johnson (Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Spencer), and Mary Jackson (Monae) played in the Space Race.