27+ Katherine Johnson Nasa Badge Pictures. 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. Katherine johnson, nasa mathematician and an inspiration for 'hidden figures,' dies.

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Johnson helped our nation enlarge the frontiers of space. Katherine johnson, one of the nasa mathematicians who helped send john glenn into space. In fact, she calculated the flight trajectories for all of the mercury flights, including the 1962 mission that made.

24 at 101, went on to develop equations that helped the naca and its successor, nasa, send.

Pioneering black nasa mathematician katherine johnson dies. 'hidden figures' mathematician katherine johnson dies johnson was one of nasa's human computers and wrote trajectory equations for missions in the space agency's early days. Johnson computation research facility at langley. Scientists, celebrities, and politicians around the world are paying tribute to nasa mathematician katherine johnson, who died at the age of 101 on monday.