The daughter of a "Hidden Figure" will represent her mother Saturday evening as she is inducted into the International Air & ...

Pioneering African-American Nasa mathematician Katherine Johnson ... and social barriers". Ms Johnson calculated rocket trajectories and Earth orbits for Nasa's early space missions.

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.

In 1962, John Glenn sat in his capsule waiting for his rocket engines to light-up and lift him to space. But first, he insisted that Katherine Johnson double ... predecessor to NASA) was looking ...

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.

She retired from NASA in 1971. Katherine Johnson calculated trajectories ... Space program to get students excited about math, science, and space travel. Tragically, McAuliffe never made it ...

Washington, Katherine ... NASA's human "computers" and inspiration for the acclaimed movie "Hidden Figures", passed away on Monday. She was 101. Johnson calculated the flight path for the first ...

Three short films exploring the science KS1 topic of space ... An animation exploring the life of Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who joined NASA's space program in the 1950s and played ...

CLEVELAND — 3News' Betsy Kling recently had the opportunity to sit down with Vanessa Wyche, the Director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center ... exposed to science in my classes.