Northrop Grumman is naming their next spacecraft headed to the International Space Station in honor of NASA mathematician and American hero Katherine Johnson. Johnson, a Black woman, is most famous ...

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, ...

When NASA astronaut John Glenn prepared to orbit Earth in 1962 aboard Friendship 7, he asked for one thing before his mission: “Get the girl to check the numbers.” That “girl” was Katherine Johnson, a ...

(Reuters) - Katherine Johnson, the black woman whose mathematical genius took her from a behind-the-scenes job in a segregated NASA as portrayed in the film "Hidden Figures" to a key role in sending ...