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

Katherine Johnson Graduated From High School At Age ... Despite these obstacles, Vaughan became the first Black supervisor of the NACA, NASA’s predecessor. And in 1958, when the NACA fully ...

This photo provided by NASA shows mathematician Katherine Johnson in 1966 ... and engineers" at NASA and NACA "between the 1930s and the 1970s." 'Hidden Figures' NASA women to receive ...

As authorized by Congress, the medals were bestowed to Christine Darden and posthumously to Katherine Johnson ... as mathematicians and engineers at NACA (National Advisory Committee for ...

In 1958, when the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) was transferred to the ... (Mathematician Katherine Johnson, portrayed by Taraji P. Henson, and engineer Mary Jackson, played ...

When Katherine Johnson began working at the National ... roughly one-third of whom were black, when she joined Naca. Johnson had a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and spent her early career ...

Our first spotlight is on Katherine Johnson, an instrumental contributor ... before being hired by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), the predecessor to NASA.

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 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 ...

Katherine Johnson was also employed as a "human computer" at NACA in the year 1953. Like her fellow mathematicians Vaughan and Jackson, Johnson was a woman of color who was forced to endure the ...

Lanier Middle School officially became Katherine Johnson Middle School on Friday ... at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) in 1952. In 1957 the launch of the Soviet satellite ...

Katherine Johnson, the pioneering black mathematician ... Virginia, until 1958, when NACA became NASA. In a later chapter of her memoir, she detailed her concerns about allowing her daughters ...