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 ...

The Space Race of the 1960s was a monumental period in history. The competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to dominate space exploration captured the world’s attention, but there ...

W ithout Katherine Johnson, NASA would not have landed a man on the moon. The 2016 film "Hidden Figures" told Johnson's story as a brilliant mathematician, a trailblazer who overcame racism and ...

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Without Katherine Johnson, it’s fair to say the astronaut ... she helped to plan the successful space mission, has had a NASA centre dedicated to her. Read more: “Women are powerful in numbers ...

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Washington, Katherine Johnson, a woman mathematician who was one of NASA's human "computers" and inspiration for the acclaimed movie "Hidden Figures", passed away on Monday. She was 101.

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. ?NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson was an unsung hero of space exploration until long ...