Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hopper Stone/Twentieth Century Fox ; NASA/Donaldson Collection/Getty Taraji P. Henson in Hidden Figures (2016) ; NASA space ...

The movie based on Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson was the top-grossing Oscar-nominated film of 2017 Hopper Stone/Twentieth Century Fox ; NASA/Donaldson Collection/Getty Hidden ...

Nasa mathematician Katherine Johnson, who was the inspiration for film Hidden Figures, has died at the age of 101. She was part of the team who helped launch the first American orbit around the Earth, ...

Taraji P. Henson in Hidden Figures (2016) ; NASA space scientist, and mathematician Katherine Johnson at NASA Langley Research Center in 1966 in Hampton, Virginia. The behind-the-scenes calculations ...

The movie based on Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson was the top-grossing Oscar-nominated film of 2017 Hidden Figures may have been a box office sensation thanks to its leading ...