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 ...

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 ...

In keeping the legacy of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson alive, we rounded up some things that you need to know about the trailblazers and the work that quite literally ...

NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston will name a building after legendary human computer Dorothy Vaughan and the women of the Apollo program on Friday, one day before the 55th anniversary of the ...

Dorothy Johnson Vaughan was born in 1910 in Kansas City, Missouri. Her family moved to Morgantown, West Virginia and she completed high school and received a BA in mathematics from the ...

Dorothy Vaughan and another local civil rights figure — Patricia Turner, one of 17 black students in Norfolk who integrated into white schools in 1958 — were honored at a Black History Month ...

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.

The newly named “Dorothy Vaughan Center in Honor of Women of Apollo” building at Johnson Space Center on Friday, July 19, 2024 in Houston. Vaughan was a mathematician and human computer who ...

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 ...

NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston will name a building after legendary human computer Dorothy Vaughan and the women of the Apollo program on Friday, one day before the 55th anniversary of the ...