But first, 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 ...

The NASA mathematician, Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson, who was depicted in the award-winning movie, Hidden Figures, has died at the age of 101. Here are five facts about the renowned NASA ...

Katherine Johnson was a brilliant mathematician whose calculations helped NASA send astronauts to the Moon. Despite facing racial and gender barriers, she excelled, proving that talent and ...

NASA pioneer Katherine Johnson died Monday at the age of 101, the space agency announced. Johnson, whose calculations played a key role in the Apollo 11 moon landing, earned nationwide acclaim ...

Katherine Johnson was, for a time, one of the great unsung American heroes of the space race. The mathematician, who passed away on Feb. 24 at the age of 101, worked at NASA during in the 1950s ...

Johnson helped pave the way for NASA achievements. NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, who helped pave the way for the first American astronaut to successfully orbit the Earth, died Monday ...

Brian Resnick was Vox’s science and health editor and is the co-creator of Unexplainable, Vox’s podcast about unanswered questions in science. Katherine Johnson, who died Monday at age 101 ...

Fame has finally found Katherine Johnson — and it only took 98 years, six manned moon landings, a best-selling book and an Oscar-nominated movie. For more than 30 years, Johnson worked as a NASA ...

Katherine Johnson, the venerated NASA mathematician who was depicted in the film “Hidden Figures,” died Monday, NASA said. She was 101. “Ms. Johnson helped our nation enlarge the frontiers ...

Katherine Johnson, a NASA mathematician and trailblazer for racial justice who is one of the space agency's most inspirational leaders, has died. She was 101. Johnson died Monday of natural causes ...