Katherine Johnson was a brilliant mathematician whose calculations helped NASA send astronauts to the Moon. Despite facing racial and gender barriers, she excelled, proving that talent and ...

Katherine Johnson and a highly-skilled team of female African-American mathematicians are credited with crunching the numbers by hand that allowed NASA to launch the first U.S. astronauts into space.

NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, who helped pave the way for the first American astronaut to successfully orbit the Earth, died Monday morning at the age of 101, according to NASA. The ...

Katherine Johnson, a schoolteacher and mom, grabbed a chance to work as a mathematician in the U.S. space program. She overcame barriers to women and blacks partly by ignoring them.

NEW YORK — Astronaut Yvonne Cagle had a critical job to perform in February: Escort 98-year-old mathematician Katherine Johnson across the country to the Academy Awards to be honored alongside ...

I thought about Akosua Haynes on Monday morning, when I read about the death of NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson at age 101. Johnson was a human computer whose exacting calculations launched Jo… ...

HAMPTON, Va. (WAVY) — Katherine Johnson, a pioneering Hampton Roads and American icon who helped American astronauts land on the moon, has died at age 101, NASA announced Monday.

NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, pictured at the 2017 Academy Awards, was one of the women profiled in the book and film Hidden Figures. She died Monday at 101. Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP ...