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 ...

Upcoming SpaceX, NASA, ULA rocket launch ... to rename Building 12 the “Dorothy Vaughan Center in Honor of the Women of Apollo.” Labeled "a legendary human computer" by NASA, Vaughan became ...

NASA is honoring ... original buildings as the "Dorothy Vaughan Center in Honor of the Women of Apollo" on Friday (July 19). The title recognizes one of the "human computers" whose calculations ...

July 15 (UPI) --NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston plans to name a building after legendary human computer Dorothy Vaughan and women involved in the Apollo program on Friday, one day before ...

Katherine Johnson, Dr. Christine Darden, Dorothy Vaughan ... who served as computers, mathematicians, and engineers at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and NASA between the 1930s ...

This undated photo provided by NASA shows Dorothy J ... Gold Medal to Johnson, Jackson, Vaughan, Darden and "all the women who served as computers, mathematicians, and engineers" at NASA and ...

Four Black women who worked as scientists and mathematicians at NASA during the Space Race ... Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson, Dorothy Vaughan and Christine Darden were awarded ...

WASHINGTON, July 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston will recognize legendary human computer Dorothy Vaughan and the women of Apollo with activities marking their ...

Building 12 at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston has been named the "Dorothy Vaughan Center ... to the newly-founded NASA, Vaughan and many of the West Computers joined the new Analysis ...

NASA dedicated a Johnson Space Center building Friday after NASA mathematician Dorothy Vaughan and other women who helped the Apollo missions succeed during the 1960s and 1970s. The ceremony ...