Katherine Johnson was born on August 26th, 1918, in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. Back at that time, Greenbrier County did not offer public schooling for ...

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Four Black women who worked as scientists and mathematicians at NASA during the Space Race ... role in the space program. Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson, Dorothy Vaughan and Christine ...

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.

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 ...

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.