She’s hidden no more. The brilliant mathematician portrayed in the hit movie Hidden Figures, has died at the age of 101. According to NASA, Johnson helped pave the way for the first American astronaut to successfully orbit the Earth. “Johnson helped our nation enlarge the frontiers of space even as she made huge strides that also […]
Little girls around the world will soon be able to own a Barbie doll bearing the likeness of Katherine Johnson. Johnson was highlighted in the 2016 film “Hidden Figures,” where she broke boundaries for black women in mathematics and calculated dozens of trajectories for NASA, including the 1969 Apollo 11 flight to the moon. The […]
