The mathematician blazed past racial and gender barriers to make space flight possible.

Bernie Sanders wins big in Nevada caucuses; Mathematician Katherine Johnson dies at 101.

Johnson was famously depicted by actress Taraji P. Henson in the 2016 Oscar-nominated movie "Hidden Figures."

A reminder that space was never safe from America's worst impulses—and that NASA was not excluded from the nation's evolution.

Katherine Johnson, a NASA mathematician and trailblazer for racial justice who is one of the space agency's most inspirational leaders, has died. She was 101.

Here are five facts about the extraordinary NASA mathematician, Katherine Johnson, who died at the age of 101, whose trailblazing accomplishments were depicted in 'Hidden Figures.'

Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who defied prejudice in the ’50s and ’60s to help NASA send the first men to the moon, has died at the age of 101. Only recently famous after the film “Hidden Figures” was made about her and her colleagues, she maintained un…

Pioneering NASA mathematician, Katherine Johnson, whose story was told in Hidden Figures, has died at the age of 101.

Johnson was among a group of black women mathematicians who helped power NASA's space travel in the early 1960s when the agency was still segregated.

Katherine Johnson, the pioneering NASA mathematician who was portrayed by Taraji P Henson in the Oscar-nominated 2016 film Hidden Figures, has died at the age of 101.

Ms Johnson, who helped launch the first American into orbit, was featured in the film Hidden Figures.

NASA says Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who worked on NASA’s early space missions and was portrayed in the film Hidden Figures, died.

"Anything that could be counted, I did."

Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who calculated rocket trajectories and earth orbits for NASA’s early space missions and was later portrayed in the 2016 hit film “Hidden Figures,” about...

She was one of a group of black women mathematicians at NASA and its predecessor who were celebrated in the 2016 movie “Hidden Figures.”

She was one of a group of black women mathematicians at NASA and its predecessor who were celebrated in the 2016 movie “Hidden Figures.”

She was one of a group of black women mathematicians at NASA and its predecessor who were celebrated in the 2016 movie “Hidden Figures.”