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House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., announced a new bathroom policy banning biological males from women's spaces at the Capitol and House office buildings.
A "Hidden Figures" mathematician who helped America win the space race was inducted into the International Air & Space Hall of Fame at the San Diego Air & Space Museum on Saturday.
African American women who made up NASA’s “computer pool” in the earliest days of the space race against the Soviet Union -- initially working in segregated conditions -- were honored with ...
Most Mountain State residents already know what a treasure the late Katherine Johnson was, and how important she and her colleagues were to any successes the United States had at the beginning of ...
U.S. Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana presented the families of the Hidden Figures of the Space Race with the Congressional Gold Medal.
The efforts of the women at NASA inspired a book and movie titled, “Hidden Figures.” Mike Johnson, speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, says these women played a large role in an ...
Katherine Johnson, whose career making vital calculations for NASA was immortalized in the 2016 book and movie "Hidden Figures," has died at 101.
“I always pushed myself to go higher,” Johnson wrote in her posthumous memoir “My Remarkable Journey.” ...
The daughters of Katherine Johnson, the NASA mathematician in "Hidden Figures," joined TODAY to discuss her accomplishments as her memoir is released.
Katherine Johnson became a household name circa 2016, when the bestselling book and Hollywood film Hidden Figures highlighted her role as a NASA mathematician during the space race (SN: 1/21/17, p ...
Katherine Johnson’s work as a NASA mathematician was essential during the space race, if underappreciated. A new memoir sheds light on her story.
Pioneering NASA mathematician Katherine Coleman Johnson of "Hidden Figures" fame was always at the front of the class.