Get Katherine Johnson Nasa Badge Background. '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. Katherine johnson, one of the trailblazing african american mathematicians whose story was told in the hit film hidden figures, has died, nasa johnson worked at the national advisory committee for aeronautics, or naca, a segregated computing unit which became the national aeronautics and.

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Johnson is perhaps best known for helping nasa prepare for the orbital mission of john glenn, but that was far from her only achievement or. Katherine johnson, a pioneering black mathematician who helped nasa launch men to the moon, died monday at 101. Ms johnson calculated rocket trajectories and.

© nasa nasa research mathematician katherine johnson is photographed at her desk at nasa langley research center with a globe, or celestial training device, in 1962.

Johnson was an american hero and her pioneering legacy will never be forgotten, nasa administrator jim bridenstine wrote on twitter. 24 at 101, went on to develop equations that helped the naca and its successor, nasa, send. Johnson computation research facility at langley. Katherine johnson, one of the nasa mathematicians depicted in hidden figures, died monday, the administrator of nasa said.