Henson as Katherine Johnson in Hidden Figures ... I wanted to build all the costumes and get a lot of vintage stuff on Mary.” To give Mary a true vintage feel, Kalfus worked to gather unsold ...

We were able to look at albums from Katherine [Johnson]. One of the significant things about the period was — you need for the costumes to help your actors contextualize the era they were in.

Katherine Johnson's pioneering contributions to the Space Race were highlighted in the film Hidden Figures, where she was played by Taraji P. Henson Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the ...

Katherine Johnson played a pivotal role in the Space Race. Katherine Johnson was a NASA mathematician who played a key role in several NASA missions during the Space Race, including calculating ...

HAMPTON, Virginia -- Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who calculated rocket trajectories and earth orbits for NASA's early space missions and was later portrayed in the 2016 hit film "Hidden ...

When Katherine Johnson ­began working at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics in 1953, she was classified as “subprofessional,” not far outranking a secretary or janitor.

NASA pioneer Katherine Johnson died Monday at the age of 101, the space agency announced. Johnson, whose calculations played a key role in the Apollo 11 moon landing, earned nationwide acclaim ...

Katherine Johnson, the NASA Langley Research Center mathematician who went from “hidden” to hero in her late 90s, died Monday morning at the age of 101. In the early days of the space program ...