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

Among the "Hidden Figures'" achievements was helping to calculate the 1969 Apollo 11 mission sending men to the moon. close Javascript must be enabled in order to access C-SPAN videos.

Pioneering African-American Nasa mathematician Katherine Johnson ... Margot Lee Shetterly, who wrote Hidden Figures, said it was her "life's honor" to tell Ms Johnson's story.

he insisted that Katherine Johnson double-check the electronic computer’s trajectory calculations. While that’s the dramatic version of events given in the recent movie, Hidden Figures ...

Without Katherine Johnson ... togetherness is key right now Until the release of hit film Hidden Figures earlier this year, Johnson’s achievements weren’t well-known. The film saw the ...

The street outside Nasa's headquarters has been named "Hidden Figures Way", in honour of ... title of a book and film about the lives of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson.

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.

These hidden figures, people whose stories have been overlooked or disregarded, are an important part of the study of natural history. Discover more about the people behind the headlines, and how they ...

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