Nov 22, 2016 · It was the first time a woman in the Flight Research Division had received credit as an author of a research report. In 1962, as NASA prepared for the orbital mission of John …

In 2015, President Barack Obama awarded Johnson the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 2016, she was presented with the Silver Snoopy Award by NASA astronaut Leland D. Melvin and a …

Nov 26, 2025 · Katherine Johnson, American mathematician who calculated and analyzed the flight paths of many spacecraft during her more than three decades with the U.S. space …

Oct 30, 2024 · Born in the segregated south of 1918, Katherine Johnson was a trailblazer from day one. Not only was she one of the first Black students to integrate West Virginia’s graduate …

The story in Hidden Figures picked up with Johnson already at NASA, working against prejudices and obstacles as both a woman and an African American in a time when our society was still …

Nov 13, 2025 · Johnson helped calculate the trajectory for the Apollo 11 mission that delivered the first humans to the lunar surface. She also provided equations that turned out to be essential …

Read about Katherine’s life, as told in her own words and by friends and family members who knew her best.

May 25, 2017 · Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson (1918– ) is an African-American mathematician who made valuable contributions to critical aeronautics and space programs of …

When President Kennedy challenged NASA to land on the moon, Katherine was a key figure on the team. She helped figure out how to launch a spacecraft into the moon’s orbit and how to …

Johnson's successful calculations were central to many prominent American space flights during her tenure at NASA. Johnson has received many awards, including honorary doctoral degrees.