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SEE MORE “Hidden Figures” mathematician Katherine Johnson may have missed out on the Lego toy treatment, but she and 16 other women are getting the Barbie doll ... work at NASA was featured ...
It features Frida Kahlo, Amelia Earhart and the woman whose story inspired the motion picture Hidden Figures, Katherine ... doll, which will retail for $29.99, includes Johnson’s glasses, her ...
The 2016 film adaptation of Hidden Figures saw the work of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Katherine finally recognized and celebrated on a massive platform. Now Johnson, a former NASA ...
To pre-order the Katherine Johnson doll, which costs $29.99, visit Mattel's website here. Alex Stuckey covers NASA and the environment for the Houston Chronicle. You can reach her at alex.stuckey@ ...
Her technical contributions at NASA aided Alan Shepard and ... Now, she’s getting her own doll. Mattel is honoring Katherine Johnson and Britain’s most successful female boxer, Nicola Adams ...
Without the precision of “human computer” Katherine Johnson, NASA’s storied history might ... She co-authored a paper on the safety of orbital landings in 1960 – the first time a woman ...
Katherine Johnson, the NASA Langley Research Center mathematician ... Johnson’s precise trajectory calculations — done with pencil and paper, or chalk and blackboard — put John Glenn and ...
The paper, “Determination of Azimuth Angle at Burnout for Placing a Satellite Over a Selected Earth Position,” marked the first time a woman wrote a technical report in NASA’s elite flight ...
Katherine Johnson ... She later became the first woman within NASA's Flight Research Division to coauthor a research paper. But Johnson is perhaps best known for her work calculating the equations ...
Katherine Johnson, who died Monday at age 101 ... In figuring it out, she became the first woman to ever co-author a research paper at NASA. Entitled “Determination of Azimuth Angle at Burnout ...
Without the precision of “human computer” Katherine Johnson, NASA’s storied history might ... She co-authored a paper on the safety of orbital landings in 1960 – the first time a woman ...