NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, who helped pave the way for the first American astronaut to successfully orbit the Earth, died Monday morning at the age of 101, according to NASA. The ...

Mathematician Katherine Johnson, one of the first African American women to work as a NASA scientist who manually calculated the trajectory of spaceflights during the 1960s space race with Russia ...

Trailblazing NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson passed away at the age of 101. Johnson was a key member of a group of African-American women whose vital mathematical work helped lay the ...

The NASA mathematician who helped make the first human spaceflight possible will be honored at William & Mary’s 2018 Commencement ceremony on May 12 at 9 a.m. in Zable Stadium.

Katherine Johnson, an African-American mathematician who made critical contributions to the space program at NASA, died Feb. 24 at the age of 101.

Fame has finally found Katherine Johnson - and it only took 98 years, ... That she was an African-American woman in an almost all-male and white workforce made her career even more remarkable.

The plaudits for Katherine Johnson, the African American math genius whose work helped Americans to fly in space and ultimately to the moon, have been many and well deserved.Anyone who has seen ...

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

A new scholarship created as a tribute to NASA pioneer Katherine Johnson will benefit African American students studying math or science within West Virginia University’s Eberly College of Arts ...

There, Johnson found a mentor in William Waldron Schieffelin Claytor, a professor who had become the third-ever African American to earn a Ph.D.. in mathematics. SPACEX, NASA, SIGN SPACEFLIGHT ...

Katherine Johnson, one of the African American women whose stories received global attention in the best-selling book and blockbuster movie, “Hidden Figures,” has turned 101.