Before she helped send the first astronauts to the moon, won the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and became the subject of an award-winning film, Katherine Johnson—who passed away on February 24, 2020 ...

ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) - On August 26, 1918, legendary NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson was born in West Virginia. Johnson’s brilliance was clear from a young age. She was already attending high ...

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 ...