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Carolyn Goode Click here for updates on this story June 25, 2025 (Houston Style Magazine) — (Washington, DC – June 25, 2025) – The extraordinary life and legacy of NASA icon Katherine Johnson ...
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Dorothy Vaughan was born Dorothy Johnson, in Kansas City, Missouri on the 20th September 1910 to her mother Annie and Father Leonard Johnson. The young family soon moved to Morgantown, West Virginia.
Project Dorothy is named after Dorothy Vaughan, an African American mathematician and “human computer” who worked for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and NASA in 1939 ...
Her contributions laid the foundation for future mathematicians to excel in academia and beyond. Dorothy Vaughan (1910-2008): NASA’s First African American Manager ...
Furthering her educational legacy, the Dorothy J. Vaughan Academy of Technology opened in Charlotte, NC, in August 2017, drawing inspiration from Vaughan’s leadership and love of learning.
Dorothy Vaughan was a trailblazing mathematician and computer programmer who significantly contributed to the U.S. space program. As NACA’s (later NASA) first African American manager, she ...
Though they may never shed the label, the women who worked for NASA as human computers during the space race are no longer "hidden figures," and they now have Congressional Gold Medals to prove it.