The Inspiring True Story of “Hidden Figures”: Meet the Real NASA Mathematicians Who Got Man on the Moon

The movie based on Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson was the top-grossing Oscar-nominated film of 2017 ...

‘Hidden Figure’ Gladys West, GPS pioneer and Navy civilian, dies at 95

West’s genius secured her a position in 1956 at the Naval Support Facility Dahlgren, then called Naval Proving Ground, where ...
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Gladys West, mathematician whose work paved the way for GPS, dies at 95

A self-described "little farm girl" in the Jim Crow Era, Gladys West's complex and pioneering work for the U.S. Navy helped ...
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From Hidden to Modern- the figures of NASA at the National Math Festival

The Oscar-nominated film Hidden Figures highlighted the women who were instrumental in launching John Glenn into orbit. NASA is committed to giving the current female engineers the recognition they ...
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Katherine Johnson dead at 101: Who was the NASA mathematician featured in Hidden Figures?

Former NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson dies at 101. Pic credit: NASA Langley Research Center/YouTube Katherine Johnson, a pioneering NASA mathematician, died on Monday at the age of 101. Johnson, ...