In the early space-race days depicted in the film “Hidden Figures,” a job title was “computer.” Ben Zimmer on why. From a 1613 book to the early days of the space race ...

When NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson asks to join a high-level briefing in the run-up to astronaut John Glenn’s historic 1962 flight in the film “Hidden Figures,” an engineer rushes to ...

The title announces the intent. In recent years, it’s become a trend in pop science and history literature to revisit well-known events from the perspective of the kinds of people usually overlooked ...

Katherine Johnson, the former NASA mathematician depicted in the 2016 film “Hidden Figures,” died Monday at the age of 101. In 2015, then-President Barack Obama awarded Johnson a Presidential ...

Hidden Figures is rise-up storytelling at its glossiest, an easy, entertaining history lesson to swallow. In 1962, the United States was losing ground in a space race with the Soviet Union while ...

The new historical film Hidden Figures explores the largely untold efforts of three mathematicians, and women of color, to assist NASA in the 1960s. Based on the nonfiction book of the same name ...

Answer by Robert Frost, Instructor and Flight Controller at NASA, on Quora:. Were most current NASA employees aware of the work of the women featured in Hidden Figures? I can’t really quantify ...

First look at the trailer for the upcoming space history movie "Hidden Figures" (2017). Skip to ... at NASA," says Johnson, portrayed by Taraji P ... most people watching the movie trailer ...

Johnson, 101, is the only woman still alive from the group depicted in “Hidden Figures.” The movie shared the stories of how Johnson, Vaughan and Jackson made history as mathematicians at NASA ...

A NASA employee for 35 years, Johnson's major contributions to the space program were memorialized in the 2016 film “Hidden Figures.” She was portrayed in the movie by actress Taraji P. Henson ...

A NASA employee for 35 years, Johnson's major contributions to the space program were memorialized in the 2016 film “Hidden Figures.” She was portrayed in the movie by actress Taraji P. Henson ...