That’s because the street on which the building sits has been renamed Hidden Figures Way. The new name honors the work of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson, the so-called ...

The "Dorothy Vaughan Center in Honor of the Women of Apollo" is one of Johnson Space Center's original permanent structures built in 1963. Today it serves as an administrative support building.

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 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 ...

Hidden Figures tells the story of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson, three black women who played crucial roles in one of NASA's finest hours: launching an American into orbit ...