42+ Katherine Johnson Nasa Photos Pics. Johnson helped our nation enlarge the frontiers of space. The national advisory committee for aeronautics (naca), the predecessor to nasa.

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Then, in 1952, a relative told her about an exciting new opportunity: Nasa pioneer katherine johnson died monday at the age of 101, the space agency announced. Katherine johnson, nasa mathematician portrayed in 'hidden figures', dies at 101.

Johnson and her black colleagues at the fledgling nasa were known as computers when that term was used not for a.

24 at 101, went on to develop equations that helped the naca and its successor, nasa, send. Johnson helped our nation enlarge the frontiers of space. Nasa says katherine johnson, a mathematician who worked on nasa's early space missions and was portrayed in the film hidden figures, about in this feb. In 1958, after naca was reformulated into the national aeronautics and space administration (nasa), johnson was among the people charged with determining how to get a.