NASA named a new 40,000 square foot building at the Langley Research Center the Katherine G. Johnson Computational Research Facility. She’ll be celebrating her 100th birthday on August 26 ...

A "Hidden Figures" mathematician who helped America win the space race was inducted into the International Air & Space Hall ...

Pioneering African-American Nasa mathematician Katherine Johnson has died at the age of 101. Nasa announced her death on Twitter, saying it was celebrating her life and honouring "her legacy of ...

Without Katherine Johnson ... Which is why Johnson, dubbed the ‘human computer’ after she helped to plan the successful space mission, has had a NASA centre dedicated to her.

Although they may never completely shed the label, the women who worked for NASA as human computers ... Christine Darden and posthumously to Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson and Dorothy Vaughan.

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.

Washington, Katherine Johnson, a woman mathematician who was one of NASA's human "computers" and inspiration for the acclaimed movie "Hidden Figures", passed away on Monday. She was 101.

Recently, their mother, Vivian Ayers Allen, was acknowledged by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ...

Katherine Schwarzenegger is an author, animal rights advocate and the daughter of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Mira Shriver. In 2010, she became a New York Times best-selling author at the age of 21 ...