Pioneering African-American Nasa mathematician Katherine Johnson has died at the age of 101. Nasa announced her death on Twitter, saying it was celebrating her life and honouring "her legacy of ...

This was what a research mathematician did ... 40,000 square foot building at the Langley Research Center the Katherine G. Johnson Computational Research Facility. She’ll be celebrating her ...

You see that light, moving across the sky? It doesn’t look like much now, does it? But actually, up there, that’s a spacecraft. And the man inside it – well, he’s a gentleman I work with.

A “Hidden Figures” mathematician who helped America win ... Katherine Moore accepted the honor for her mother, Katherine Johnson, whose calculations in the new field of orbital mechanics ...

Katherine Johnson was one of four talented African American women working for NASA in the 1950s-60s. As a physicist, space scientist, and mathematician, she calculated the orbits of US astronauts ...

Katherine Moore accepted the honor for her mother, Katherine Johnson, whose calculations in the new field of orbital mechanics were instrumental in bringing mankind to the moon during NASA’s ...