Katherine Johnson played a pivotal role in the Space Race. Katherine Johnson was a NASA mathematician who played a key role in several NASA missions during the Space Race, including calculating ...

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 ...

Katherine Johnson, one of the history-making, barrier-breaking NASA mathematicians depicted in "Hidden Figures," died Monday, the administrator of NASA said. She was 101. "Johnson helped our ...

When Katherine Johnson ­began working at the National Advisory ... went on to develop equations that helped the NACA and its successor, NASA, send astronauts into orbit and, later, to the moon.

Fame has finally found Katherine Johnson — and it only ... For more than 30 years, Johnson worked as a NASA mathematician at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., where she played an unseen ...

Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP Share Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who calculated rocket trajectories and earth orbits for NASA’s early space missions and was later portrayed in the 2016 hit ...

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 ...

Katherine Johnson, the woman who hand-calculated the trajectory for America's first trip to space, died Monday, according to NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine. Johnson was 101 years old.

Katherine Johnson, a NASA mathematician whose trailblazing contributions to the space agency during the Space Race got the silver screen treatment in the film Hidden Figures, has died, NASA ...

Without the precision of “human computer” Katherine Johnson, NASA’s storied history might’ve looked a lot different. Her calculations were responsible for safely rocketing men into space ...

Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who was one of NASA's human "computers" and an unsung hero of the space agency's early days, died Monday. She calculated the flight path for America's first ...

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 ...