Katherine Johnson, the groundbreaking NASA mathematician portrayed by Taraji P. Henson in the 2016 Oscar-nominated film Hidden Figures, has died at the age of 101. Long before she helped develop the ...

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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 ...

WASHINGTON (WCHS) — A West Virginian known for her integral role in landing astronauts on the surface of the moon was awarded a posthumous Congressional Gold Medal Wednesday. Mathematician Katherine ...

Katherine Johnson, the woman who hand-calculated the trajectory for America's first trip to space, died Monday, according to NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine. Johnson was 101 years old. According to ...

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 ...

The inspiring posthumous memoir of Katherine Johnson—the NASA mathematician depicted in Hidden Figures, whose precise calculations helped Neil Armstrong walk on the moon—hit bookshelves this week.

Katherine Johnson, one of the black women responsible for calculating the trajectories of the Apollo missions to the moon, died at the age of 101. The centenarian, whose death NASA announced on Monday ...

Katherine Johnson, now a retired NASA research mathematician, was no stranger to geometry. She was the one who would calculate the trajectory of Alan Shepard's 1961 trip into space. This was America's ...

*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 ...

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