Ms Johnson calculated rocket trajectories and Earth orbits for Nasa's early space missions. She was portrayed in the 2016 Oscar-nominated film Hidden Figures ... town in West Virginia in 1918 ...

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

Without Katherine ... NASA centre dedicated to her. Read more: “Women are powerful in numbers”: Taraji P Henson on why togetherness is key right now Until the release of hit film Hidden ...

On September 18, the families of Katherine Johnson ... Margot Lee Shetterly’s book Hidden Figures. Johnson, Jackson, and ...

A West Virginia State University ... was featured in the book "Hidden Figures," which was also made into a movie, with Johnson played by Taraji Henson. Fairmont’s NASA facility has been renamed ...

But first, he insisted that Katherine Johnson ... Hidden Figures, she has to walk a long distance to use the colored women’s bathroom while working at Langley. In fact, it was Mary Jackson, a ...

Among them were three trailblazers being honored posthumously — Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan ... and inspired the book and movie “Hidden Figures.” NASA said of the Academy Award ...

Washington, Katherine Johnson, a woman mathematician who was one of NASA's human "computers" and inspiration for the acclaimed movie "Hidden Figures ... Springs, West Virginia, in 1918, her ...