Katherine Johnson and other Black female scientists transformed NASA and STEM, overcoming segregation to calculate missions ...

July 15 (UPI) --NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston plans to name a building after legendary human computer Dorothy Vaughan and women involved in the Apollo program on Friday, one day before the ...

Many years before Susan Kilrain became a U.S. Navy TA-4J Skyhawk flight instructor and the second female NASA astronaut to pilot a space shuttle, her dad supported her youthful dreams during an era ...

Hidden Figures may have been a box office sensation thanks to its leading ladies Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer and Janelle Monáe, but it was the story of the real NASA women behind the film that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A group of Black female mathematicians, aeronautical engineers and human computers whose groundbreaking work for NASA during the ...

Based on the book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly, "Hidden Figures" stars Taraji P. Henson, Dorothy Vaughan and Janelle Monáe. The film recounts the story of the African-American ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Legendary human computer Dorothy Vaughan will be honored Friday. Photo courtesy NASA July 15 (UPI) --NASA's Johnson Space Center ...

The movie based on Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson was the top-grossing Oscar-nominated film of 2017 Hidden Figures may have been a box office sensation thanks to its leading ...