Remembering Katherine Johnson, the inspiration behind Hidden Figures, who passed away at the age of 101.
Cast Mourns the Death of Katherine Johnson, the NASA Mathematician Who Inspired the FilmKatherine Johnson, the trailblazing mathematician who inspired the 2016 filmhas passed away at 101. She was one of the first black women to work as a scientist for NASA.
The film was based on a nonfiction book by Margot Lee Shetterly that chronicled the lives of black female mathematicians and engineers at NASA in the 1950s and 1960s, when the United States was racing against the Soviet Union to send astronauts into space. Johnson calculated flight trajectories for various missions, including Project Mercury, the first human spaceflight program in the U.S.
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