Download Katherine Johnson Nasa Building Gif. Speakers at today's ceremony included virginia congressmen and the mayor of hampton, as well as former astronaut. Johnson helped our nation enlarge the frontiers of space.

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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. She calculated the flight path for america's first crewed space mission and moon landing, and she was among the women profiled in the book and. Johnson computational research facility' will be named in honour of the woman whose life story was featured in the movie hidden figures.

Ms johnson calculated rocket trajectories and.

© 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. Pioneering black nasa mathematician katherine johnson dies. Swiffers may be much less unwieldy than regular mops, but the.