Katherine Johnson played a pivotal role in ... and asking to be included in important meetings. When she started at NACA, Johnson and her black colleagues were required to work, eat and use ...

It turned out that NACA’s Langley Memorial Aeronautical ... square foot building at the Langley Research Center the Katherine G. Johnson Computational Research Facility. She’ll be celebrating ...

At a time of rampant racism, and a time when women were excluded from many jobs, Katherine ... of women at NACA did calculations that the engineers needed worked or verified. Johnson immediately ...

Katherine Johnson spent decades working behind the scenes ... NASA (then known as the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, or NACA) was looking into sending people to space for the first ...

When Katherine Johnson ­began working at the National Advisory ... went on to develop equations that helped the NACA and its successor, NASA, send astronauts into orbit and, later, to the moon.

Katherine Johnson, the woman who hand-calculated the ... spurring the transformation of NACA into America’s space agency, NASA. She pushed her way into briefings traditionally attended only ...

The Katherine Johnson Independent Verification ... style stars During a 35-year career at NASA and its predecessor, NACA, Johnson provided calculations for several space missions, most notably ...

In the early 1950s, Katherine Johnson was thrilled to ... from Chapter 5 of "Reaching for the Moon" below about Johnson's first days at NACA, the predecessor to NASA. Related: Best Kids' Space ...

Katherine Johnson was an asset to our space program ... Johnson got her start at NACA, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and NASA’s predecessor, in 1953 – one of several Black ...

In 1939, the newly married Johnson—then known as Katherine Goble—enrolled as a ... the National Advisory Committee for ...