From Monroe, North Carolina to one of NASA’s hidden figures, Dr. Christine Darden broke barriers in a field scarcely ...

NASA research mathematician Katherine Johnson is photographed at her desk at Langley Research Center in 1966. Johnson made critical technical contributions during her career of 33 years, which ...

For most people, being chosen as one of three Black students to integrate West Virginia’s graduate schools would be the defining chapter of a life story. For Katherine Johnson, it was just the opening ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WACO, Texas (FOX 44) – As Artemis II prepares to carry astronauts around the moon using flight computers capable of billions of ...

NASA has named a new research facility after pioneer Katherine Johnson, the trailblazing 99-year-old human computer whose incredible work as a NASA mathematician inspired the book and movie, "Hidden ...

Before computers, NASA relied on “human computers” — mathematicians who solved complex equations for flight paths and spacecraft design by hand with slide rules, graph paper, and adding machines.