Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson ... was a brilliant mathematician whose calculations were critical to the success of NASA’s early missions, including John Glenn’s orbital ...

Last month, NASA honored the late Dorothy Vaughan — a mathematician, programmer and its first Black manager at the Langley ...

NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson was an ... "Hidden Figures" also told the stories of fellow pioneers Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson, and the key role they played in the Space Race.