A "Hidden Figures" mathematician who helped America win the space race was inducted into the International Air & Space Hall ...

Pioneering African-American Nasa mathematician Katherine Johnson ... Margot Lee Shetterly, who wrote Hidden Figures, said it was her "life's honor" to tell Ms Johnson's story.

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The street outside Nasa's headquarters has been named "Hidden Figures Way ... street's name is a nod to the title of a book and film about the lives of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan ...

Without Katherine Johnson ... togetherness is key right now Until the release of hit film Hidden Figures earlier this year, Johnson’s achievements weren’t well-known. The film saw the ...

Among the "Hidden Figures'" achievements was helping to calculate the 1969 Apollo 11 mission sending men to the moon. close Javascript must be enabled in order to access C-SPAN videos.

he insisted that Katherine Johnson double-check the electronic computer’s trajectory calculations. While that’s the dramatic version of events given in the recent movie, Hidden Figures ...

This short trivia quiz tests your knowledge of fiction and nonfiction works that were made into popular films about space exploration and the quest to connect with other worlds.

The IVLP initiative was inspired by the 2016 film Hidden Figures about four Black female ... return from International Space Station Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson and Christine ...

In front of SUB Ballroom A last Wednesday, stacks of books — all provided by the MSU Bookstore — dwindled as the line to ...

Washington, Katherine Johnson, a woman mathematician who was one of NASA's human "computers" and inspiration for the acclaimed movie "Hidden Figures", passed away on Monday. She was 101.