Successfully getting humans into space and back is risky business. However, it was made possible less than a century ago thanks to help from some extraordinary Black women known as ‘Hidden Figures’.

The movie based on Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson was the top-grossing Oscar-nominated film of 2017 Hidden Figures may have been a box office sensation thanks to its leading ...

WASHINGTON (ABC 7) — NASA Chief Historian Bill Barry worked with Director Ted Melfi on the script of "Hidden Figures" to lend not just credibility, but accuracy to the history making story of NASA ...

The movie based on Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson was the top-grossing Oscar-nominated film of 2017 Hopper Stone/Twentieth Century Fox ; NASA/Donaldson Collection/Getty Hidden ...

(Reuters) - Katherine Johnson, the black woman whose mathematical genius took her from a behind-the-scenes job in a segregated NASA as portrayed in the film "Hidden Figures" to a key role in sending ...

From a childhood and young adulthood in segregation, West excelled academically and eventually helped model the Earth’s shape. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Taraji P. Henson in Hidden Figures (2016) ; NASA space scientist, and mathematician Katherine Johnson at NASA Langley Research Center in 1966 in Hampton, Virginia. The behind-the-scenes calculations ...