Katherine Johnson: NASA’s forgotten human computer

Discover Katherine Johnson's inspiring journey as a pioneering African American mathematician who broke barriers at NASA.
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Katherine Johnson: African American woman who broke barriers at NASA in the 1960s dead at 101

Katherine Johnson, a former NASA mathematician whose story inspired the movie Hidden Figures, has died, NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine said Monday. She was 101. Johnson was born in White Sulphur ...
Albany Democrat-Herald

NASA to rename headquarters after Mary W. Jackson, its first African American female engineer

NASA is renaming its headquarters after Mary W. Jackson, the agency's first African American female engineer who helped inspire the story behind the book and film "Hidden Figures." "Mary W. Jackson ...
Texas Standard

‘On a Mission’ explores the history of women in space

"The first 20 women or so ... couldn't even imagine the reality or the possibility of becoming an astronaut except as they ...
Smithsonian Magazine

A Woman’s Place: In Outer Space

Learn about Sally Ride, Mae Jemison, and Eileen Collins, some of the pioneering women at NASA who were among the first to suit up for spaceflight. Valerie Neal Sally Ride at the Lyndon B. Johnson ...
Smithsonian Magazine

New Partnership Illuminates Hidden Record of NASA’s Human Computers

NASA research mathematician Katherine Johnson is photographed at her desk at Langley Research Center in 1966. Johnson made critical technical contributions during her career of 33 years, which ...
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This Historian Interviewed Nearly Every Woman Astronaut and Learned How They Redefined NASA Forever

For most of NASA’s history, space was a man’s domain, a boys’ club in orbit. The first astronauts were all military test pilots, white men trained to push the envelope of flight, not question ...