View Katherine Johnson Nasa Badge Images. Johnson helped our nation enlarge the frontiers of space. 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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The stars of hidden figures―taraji p. Katherine johnson, a pioneering black mathematician who helped nasa launch men to the moon, died monday at 101. Johnson was among a group of black women mathematicians who helped power nasa's space travel in the early 1960s when the agency was still segregated.

Katherine johnson, a pioneering black mathematician who helped nasa launch men to the moon, died monday at 101.

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 mathematician of her time who was featured in the movie hidden figures, has died at the age of 101, according to nasa. Henson, octavia spencer and janelle monae―presented the award for best documentary at the oscars tonight, but they brought out the real star of their blockbuster film: Katherine johnson, one of the nasa mathematicians who helped send john glenn into space.