Many years before Susan Kilrain became a U.S. Navy TA-4J Skyhawk flight instructor and the second female NASA astronaut to pilot a space shuttle, her dad supported her youthful dreams during an era ...

The movie based on Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson was the top-grossing Oscar-nominated film of 2017 ...

The Oscar-nominated film Hidden Figures highlighted the women who were instrumental in launching John Glenn into orbit. NASA is committed to giving the current female engineers the recognition they ...

A group of Black female scientists and mathematicians known as NASA's “ Hidden Figures” were honored with Congressional Gold Medals on Wednesday, the highest award given to citizens by Congress, for ...

Former NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson dies at 101. Pic credit: NASA Langley Research Center/YouTube Katherine Johnson, a pioneering NASA mathematician, died on Monday at the age of 101. Johnson, ...

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I can remember the day I went to see “Hidden Figures” in theaters. I was a part of the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) program at my high school, and one of my teachers offered us ...

Katherine Johnson’s legacy still lives on. The late mathematician, who died in February 2020 at age 101, is well-known for solving some of the most complex mathematical equations while working at NASA ...

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 film "Hidden Figures," about pioneering ...