View Katherine Johnson Nasa Photos Pictures. Johnson computational research facility at the langley research center, in hampton, va., the same location where she started her career at naca. In 2017 nasa unveiled the katherine g.

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The national advisory committee for aeronautics (naca), the predecessor to nasa. Johnson refused to be limited by society's expectations of her gender and race while expanding the boundaries of humanity's reach. Johnson checking her manual calculations at her desk at the langley research center.

Nasa says katherine johnson, a mathematician who worked on nasa's early space missions and was portrayed in the film hidden figures, about in this feb.

Specifically planned for the anniversary of alan shepherd's first excursion into space, marking him as the first american to ever exit the atmosphere, a new building at the langley research center was dedicated to katherine johnson. © 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. The national aeronautics and space administration redesignated a building that houses programs essential. (photo by nasa/donaldson collection/getty images).