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 ...

NACA was succeeded by NASA in 1958, where she worked until her retirement in 1985. She worked along with two other history-making Black mathematicians, Katherine Johnson and Dorothy Vaughan ...