WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Wednesday, the late Katherine Johnson was honored with a Congressional Gold Medal at the United States Capitol in Washington D.C. Johnson, the White Sulpher Springs native and ...

HAMPTON, Virginia -- Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who calculated rocket trajectories and earth orbits for NASA's early space missions and was later portrayed in the 2016 hit film "Hidden Figures ...

A “Hidden Figures” mathematician who helped America win the space race was inducted into the International Air & Space Hall of Fame at the San Diego Air & Space Museum on Saturday. Katherine Moore ...

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 ...

West Virginia native Katherine Johnson, an African-American mathematician who made critical contributions to the space program at NASA, died Feb. 24 at the age of 101. Johnson became a household name ...

(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 ...

HAMPTON, Va. (WAVY) — Katherine Johnson, a pioneering Hampton Roads and American icon featured in the movie “Hidden Figures,” has died at age 101, NASA announced Monday. “NASA is deeply saddened by ...

But a handful of women also contributed to our understanding of the universe, serving as cosmonauts, analysts, researchers and engineers. Unfortunately, some of them aren't household names like Aldrin ...

Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who calculated rocket trajectories and earth orbits for NASA’s early space missions and was later portrayed in the 2016 hit film “Hidden Figures,” about pioneering ...

*Unfortunately, we’ve lost another pioneer and cultural giant. NASA has just released a statement saying that Katherine Johnson, the black female mathematician who worked on NASA’s early space ...