Dorothy Vaughan became acting supervisor of West Area Computers, leading Black female mathematicians at Langley, ...

Dorothy Johnson Vaughan worked as a human computer, doing advanced math to help engineers design airplanes and rockets. She worked for NASA, supervising an office of other human computers. In the ...

Dorothy Vaughan was born in Kansas City, Mo., just 45 years after the Civil War ended. At times, her load must have felt heavy, earthbound, during a time when African American women questioned how ...

Dorothy Vaughan Became NASA’s First African-American Manager. At the height of Jim Crow, “colored” mathematicians were forced to work separately from their White coworkers.

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 ...

Dorothy Vaughan was one of the first African American women who helped pave the way for the United States in space research. Graduating as valedictorian from her high school in 1925, Dorothy ...