Johnson is known to have calculated the trajectory for the space flight of Alan Shepard, who went on to become the first American in space, and Apollo 11.

If you have seen the movie ‘Hidden Figures’, you will be no stranger to Katherine Johnson’s story. She was an African American mathematician who worked at NASA. Now, NASA has officially opened a building which it has named in her honour. The Katherine G. Johnson Computational Research Facility opened on Friday (Sept 22). Johnson was […]

It was the year 1956 in Washington DC when a woman, Raye Montague, was getting ready to make history in the US Navy. An African-American woman from Arkansas, Montague knew the circumstances that she was born in. An America, that still struggled with racism and sexism, would not let this Southern Black woman’s dreams soar high. […]