31+ Katherine Johnson Nasa Building Pictures. Speakers at today's ceremony included virginia congressmen and the mayor of hampton, as well as former astronaut. Today is the 55th anniversary of alan shephard's trip into space so today, at 2 pm eastern, nasa is giving her name to a new building:

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Nasa mathematician katherine johnson calculated the path that put a man on the moon and catapulted america to first place in the race to space. Katherine johnson, one of the trailblazing african american mathematicians whose story was told in the hit film hidden figures, has died, nasa johnson worked at the national advisory committee for aeronautics, or naca, a segregated computing unit which became the national aeronautics and. Johnson, whose calculations played a key role in the apollo 11 moon landing, earned nationwide acclaim decades later when her story was told in the book and movie hidden figures.

© nasa nasa research mathematician katherine johnson is photographed at her desk at nasa langley research center with a globe, or celestial training device, in 1962.

Katherine johnson, the former nasa mathematician depicted in the 2016 film hidden figures about black women who helped pave the way for astronauts to reach the moon, died monday, the space agency announced. Nasa mathematician katherine johnson calculated the path that put a man on the moon and catapulted america to first place in the race to space. Johnson helped our nation enlarge the frontiers of space. Pioneering black nasa mathematician katherine johnson dies.