Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hopper Stone/Twentieth Century Fox ; NASA/Donaldson Collection/Getty Taraji P. Henson in Hidden Figures (2016) ; NASA space ...

Katherine Johnson, a former NASA mathematician whose story inspired the movie “Hidden Figures,” has died, NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine said Monday. She was 101. Johnson was born in White Sulphur ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Matthew Strausser, the NASA Johnson Space Center's senior biologist for wildlife management, scans the grounds for wildlife at the ...

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 ...

Artemis I flight controllers at the Johnson Space Center during maximum distance from Earth and Moon on Nov. 28, 2022. Jeff Radigan, the lead flight director for the Artemis II mission, sat at a table ...

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 ...

Taraji P. Henson in Hidden Figures (2016) ; NASA space scientist, and mathematician Katherine Johnson at NASA Langley Research Center in 1966 in Hampton, Virginia. The behind-the-scenes calculations ...