Northrop Grumman is naming their next spacecraft headed to the International Space Station in honor of NASA mathematician and American hero Katherine Johnson. Johnson, a Black woman, is most famous ...
When NASA astronaut John Glenn prepared to orbit Earth in 1962 aboard Friendship 7, he asked for one thing before his mission: “Get the girl to check the numbers.” That “girl” was Katherine Johnson, a ...
(Reuters) - Katherine Johnson, the black woman whose mathematical genius took her from a behind-the-scenes job in a segregated NASA as portrayed in the film "Hidden Figures" to a key role in sending ...