*Unfortunately, we’ve lost another pioneer and cultural giant. NASA has just released a statement saying that Katherine Johnson, the black female mathematician who worked on NASA’s early space ...

HAMPTON, Virginia -- Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who calculated rocket trajectories and earth orbits for NASA's early space missions and was later portrayed in the 2016 hit film "Hidden Figures ...

Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who was one of NASA's human "computers" and an unsung hero of the space agency's early days, died Monday. She calculated the flight path for America's first crewed ...

In DeSoto this week, students from one school are being immersed in the history of the woman who bears the name of their school and was immortalized in the movie "Hidden Figures." The classwork for ...

ROANOKE, Va. (WFXR) — She died today, Feb. 24, at 101-years-old. U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) said he is “deeply saddened to hear of her passing.” “Katherine Johnson helped realize one of humankind’s ...

Katherine Johnson, now a retired NASA research mathematician, was no stranger to geometry. She was the one who would calculate the trajectory of Alan Shepard's 1961 trip into space. This was America's ...

Katherine Johnson, the woman who hand-calculated the trajectory for America's first trip to space, died Monday, according to NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine. Johnson was 101 years old.

Katherine Johnson, one of the black women responsible for calculating the trajectories of the Apollo missions to the moon, died at the age of 101. The centenarian, whose death NASA announced on Monday ...

Katherine Johnson, the groundbreaking NASA mathematician portrayed by Taraji P. Henson in the 2016 Oscar-nominated film Hidden Figures, has died at the age of 101. Long before she helped develop the ...