The next year saw the publication of Margot Lee Shetterly’ book Hidden Figures, which chronicled the roles of Johnson and her fellow Black women colleagues at NASA, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson.

Katherine Johnson, a pioneering mathematician and NASA employee who was pivotal in helping in America’s space race and was portrayed by Taraji P. Henson in the film “Hidden Figures,” has ...

Here are five facts about the extraordinary NASA mathematician, Katherine Johnson, who died at the age of 101, whose trailblazing accomplishments were depicted in 'Hidden Figures.' ...

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 ...

Learn more about the Lucy mission "fly past 52246 Donaldjohanson -NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Credit: NASA’s Goddard ...

Northrop Grumman has announced (in news we first heard at My Modern Met) it has named its NG-15 Cygnus spacecraft after Katherine Johnson. It will depart on a resupply mission on February 20. She ...