View Katherine Johnson Nasa Movie Pics. Pioneering nasa mathematician katherine johnson has died at the age of 101. In researching katherine johnson's biography, we learned that she was hired in 1953 and retired from nasa in 1986, for a career that spanned approximately 33 katherine johnson saw the movie and she really liked it, said author margot shetterly (space.com).
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.
Johnson's mathematical skills helped rocket the first american man into orbit in 1962, and land men on the moon in 1969. Nasa pioneer katherine johnson died monday at the age of 101, the space agency announced. Katherine johnson, a nasa mathematician and trailblazer for racial justice who is one of the space agency's most inspirational leaders, has died. Johnson became a household name thanks to the celebrated book hidden figures:
