The Congressional Gold Medal was presented to the families of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson and Christine Darden at the U.S. Capitol. Darden watched the ceremony from her ...

The incredible untold true story of Katherine Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer) & Mary Jackson (Janelle Monae)—brilliant African-American women working at NASA ...

Source: The Visionary Project Johnson was hired in 1953 to work for NASA — then called the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), since there was no space program at the time — at ...