Find out what happened to NASA’s Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson and Dorothy Vaughan, a.k.a. the real women behind ‘Hidden ...

NASA’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. will be named after the first Black female engineer at the agency, Mary W. Jackson. “Mary W. Jackson was part of a group of very important women who helped NASA ...

The women who were portrayed in “Hidden Figures,” will receive gold medals. Three African American women who were portrayed in the 2016 film, "Hidden Figures," will receive Congressional Gold Medals.

HAMPTON, Virginia -- Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who calculated rocket trajectories and earth orbits for NASA's early space missions and was later portrayed in the 2016 hit film "Hidden Figures ...