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(Reuters) - Katherine Johnson, the black woman whose mathematical genius took her from a behind-the-scenes job in a segregated NASA as portrayed in the film "Hidden Figures" to a key role in sending ...

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 ...

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 ...

A miscalculation in a bathroom, a jet of water that went the wrong way, and a restless engineer thinking about spacecraft ...