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Showing posts with label Katherine Johnson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Katherine Johnson. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 18, 2024

NASA's "Hidden Figures" awarded Congressional Gold Medal

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Four Black women Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Christine Darden BKA as the Hidden Figures that contributed to NAS...
Thursday, September 03, 2020

Katherine Johnson scholarship aids African American students

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A new scholarship created as a tribute to NASA pioneer Katherine Johnson will benefit African American students studying math or science w...
Monday, February 24, 2020

"Hidden Figure' Katherine Johnson dead at 101

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Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who calculated rocket trajectories and earth orbits for NASA’s early space missions and was later portr...
Friday, June 14, 2019

Street outside NASA's DC office renamed for 'Hidden Figures'

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Visitors to NASA’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. will forevermore be reminded of the African-American women who were essential to the...
Friday, February 22, 2019

NASA Renames Facility in Honor of 'Hidden Figure' Katherine Johnson

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NASA has redesignated its Independent Verification and Validation ( IV&V ) Facility in  Fairmont, West Virginia , as the Kath...
Monday, August 06, 2018

Black Female NASA Pioneers Nominated For Congressional Medals

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A group of U.S. senators are recognizing the African American women who contributed to the space race in the 1960s. Alaska Senator L...
Monday, September 11, 2017

NASA set to honor Katherine Johnson with new building

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NASA Langley Research Center has named their new Computational Research Facility building after Katherine G. Johnson, who started working...
Thursday, April 13, 2017

'Hidden Figure' Katherine Johnson to Deliver Hampton University Commencement Address

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Hampton University is pleased to announce that Katherine G. Johnson, one of the leading inspirations behind the Hollywood feature film H...
Monday, January 09, 2017

The Force is with Hidden Figures as it beats Rouge One for #1 movie in America

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By George L. Cook III African American Reports In a bit of a surprise three black female mathematicians beat out Darth Vader to becom...
Tuesday, December 01, 2015

President Obama wards the Medal of Freedom to Katherine Johnson

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President Obama bestowed the Medal of Freedom to Johnson, a NASA mathematician who calculated and verified the travel trajectories that ...