The history of black women working for Nasa goes back much further than the 1960s - the period of the film Hidden Figures - and their struggles continued afterwards.

To top it off, she did it all as a black woman in the 1950s and ’60s, when women at NASA were not even invited to meetings. And you’ve probably never heard of her.

First read "She Was A Computer When Computers Wore Skirts." NASA interviewed Katherine Johnson back in 2008 and she told ... the film about the black women who were so instrumental in America ...

Liza Mundy is a senior fellow at New America and author, most recently, of Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II. “Let me do it,” Katherine Johnson ...

By the time NASA was preparing to send John Glenn to space for the historic Mercury-Atlas 6 mission computers were used to calculate launch conditions. It wasn’t long before then that the space ...

WASHINGTON – NASA’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., will be named after Mary W. Jackson, the first Black woman to work as an engineer in the agency. Jackson, who joined NASA, then known as ...

For decades, the contributions of the black female mathematicians who helped get NASA astronauts into space stayed essentially hidden.Not anymore. Now, you'll be reminded of what the women did ...

By remembering the Black women who fueled NASA’s Space Race, we ensure that their invaluable contributions are celebrated and ...

The history of black women working for Nasa goes back much further than the 1960s - the period of the film Hidden Figures - and their struggles continued afterwards.

For decades, the contributions of the black female mathematicians who helped get NASA astronauts into space stayed essentially hidden.Not anymore. Now, you'll be reminded of what the women did ...

For decades, the contributions of the black female mathematicians who helped get NASA astronauts into space stayed essentially hidden.Not anymore. Now, you'll be reminded of what the women did ...

For decades, the contributions of the black female mathematicians who helped get NASA astronauts into space stayed essentially hidden.Not anymore. Now, you'll be reminded of what the women did ...