The Women of NASA

NASA's Hidden Figures honored in Congressional Gold Medal ...

The Black women who were instrumental to NASA's success during the space race known as the "Hidden Figures" were honored with the Congressional Gold Medal.

Hidden Figures No More: African American Women in Space ...

The movie focuses on three members of NASA's segregated mathematical work unit, West Area Computers at what is now the Langley Research Center, ...

Shooting for the Stars â€“ 10 Inspiring Women of NASA

NASA speculates that Mary Jackson may have been the only black female engineer in aeronautics during the 1950s. While at NASA, she worked on ...

How the women of NASA made their mark on the space program

Northcutt and other women who helped America's space efforts are reflecting on their often unheralded roles—and the indignities they endured.

The true story of the African-American women at NASA who helped ...

The African American women at NASA were known as “human computers.” Their ranks included mathematician and physicist Katherine Johnson, who was ...

'Hidden Figures': 10 of the Film's Stars and Their Real-Life Inspirations

A physicist and mathematician, Katherine G. Johnson worked with NASA in calculating trajectories, launch windows and the return paths for many ...

Ladies who launch: the women behind the Apollo Program

The youngest was Wally Funk. The oldest was Janey Hart, aged 40 with eight children. Hart, together with Cobb, tried but failed to get NASA to ...

The Real Story of 'Hidden Figures' and NASA's Women Computers

The film focuses on three real-life African-American female pioneers: Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson, who were part of NASA's team of ...

Highlights by Women@NASA (@WomenNASA) / X

headquarters “Hidden Figures Way” in honor of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, Christine M. Darden, and Mary Jackson, as well as all the women who ...

'The Six': Stories of NASA's first women astronauts revealed - CNN

Author Loren Grush in her new book, “The Six: The Untold Stories of America's First Women Astronauts.”

The True Story of 'Hidden Figures' and the Women Who Crunched ...

In 1935, the NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, a precursor to NASA) hired five women to be their first computer pool at the ...

Learning From Black Women Mathematicians at NASA

The Places of Hidden Figures shares short biographies of seven of the women who worked at NACA and NASA beginning in the 1950s.

Meet the women who broke barriers in overlooked corners of NASA

Four women onboard the International Space Station pose for a photo in the Zvezda Service Module. Clockwise from bottom left: Tracy Caldwell ...

Celebrate the Role of Women in NASA History

In recognition of Women's Equality Day, NASA celebrates some of the women who have helped shaped the agency.

Katherine Johnson Dies at 101; Mathematician Broke Barriers at ...

Over the years, Mrs. Johnson published more than two dozen technical papers. She was among the first women at NASA to be a named author or co- ...

Making History: The Women of NASA - YouTube

This month, we celebrate Women's History Month by honoring the thousands of women both in the spotlight and behind the scenes here at NASA.

Meet One of NASA's Pioneering Women | Quanta Magazine

Christine Darden describes what it was like working at NASA in the 1960s and how she became an authority on minimizing sonic booms.

NASA's Female Pioneers - Rocket Women From History You Should ...

97-Year-Old Katherine Johnson became a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom in November 2015, the United States' highest civilian honor.

How three black women helped send John Glenn into orbit

Johnson was one of three female African-American mathematicians known as the “computers in skirts” who worked on the Redstone, Mercury and ...

Women at NASA - Katherine Johnson. Mary Jackson. Dorothy...

Katherine Johnson. Mary Jackson. Dorothy Vaughan. In honor of these African-American women — plus the many, many others — who were essential ...