Pioneering NASA mathematician Katherine Coleman Johnson of "Hidden Figures" fame was always at the front of the class. Born on Aug. 26, 1918, in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, the iconic ...

NASA honoring 'Hidden Figures' math hero Vaughan was portrayed by Octavia Spencer in the 2016 movie "Hidden Figures," garnering Spencer an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.

Hidden Figures, which hits theaters ... Johnson (played by Taraji P. Henson), a math genius who played a crucial role in calculating flight trajectories for NASA; Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer ...

Katherine Johnson Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan Octavia Spencer) and Mary Jackson Janelle Monáe) are three brilliant women working at NASA in “Hidden Figures.” (Hopper Stone/20th Century ...

Though they may never shed the label, the women who worked for NASA as human computers during the space race are no longer "hidden figures," and they now have Congressional Gold Medals to prove it.

NASA honoring 'Hidden Figures' math hero Vaughan was portrayed by Octavia Spencer in the 2016 movie "Hidden Figures," garnering Spencer an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.

NASA names facility after mathematician who inspired 'Hidden Figures' Wednesday's ceremony came nearly five years after the passage of H.R. 1396 -- the Hidden Figures Congressional Gold Medal Act ...

"Hidden Figures" focuses on three computers: Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson and Dorothy Vaughan. Here are brief biographies of these women. Mary Jackson (1921-2005) ...

A group of Black women, crucial to NASA’s achievements during the space race and famously known as the “Hidden Figures,” were honored with a Congressional Gold Medal ceremony on Capitol Hill ...

NASA's "Hidden Figures" awarded Congressional Gold Medals ... Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Christine Darden, as well as a medal to all the "women mathematicians, engineers, ...

Though they may never shed the label, the women who worked for NASA as human computers during the space race are no longer "hidden figures," and they now have Congressional Gold Medals to prove it.