Katherine Johnson

A Hidden Figure At Wvu And Nasa

... to desegregate the WVU graduate program studying mathematics, in 1939. From an early age, Johnson developed a talent of mathematics that propelled her to a career mostly dominated by white males. She became one of three African-American students—and the only female—selected to integrate the graduate school. While Johnson desegregated WVU, she was unable to find a job in her field as a woman. She worked as a substitute math teacher in a public school for Newport News, VA, until 1952, when she applied as a mathematician at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA became NASA in 1958). Johnson was offered a job in 1953, and became part of the NASA team in its early years of the space program. In 1961, she became the first African-American woman on the team to calculate the trajectory for the first American in space. Working as an aerospace technologist, some of Johnson’s greatest achievements included. — Calculating the trajectory for the first American in space, in 1961. — Verifying computer numbers to calculate John Glenn’s orbit around ...

The Woman Who Was A 'hidden Figure

... for some very high-stakes missions. So how did she feel about so much weight riding on her arithmetic. “No problem.”. 'La La Land' Takes Top Honors at Producers Guild Awards. Math never stumped Johnson. She is a legend now at NASA, where a lot has changed since her 33 years there. She was a major catalyst for that change. Her brilliant mind for math led to great strides in the race to get to space and back. Octavia Spencer Picks up 'Woman of the Year' Award. She says she was just doing her job, but her parts putting America out front in the pioneering days of the space race and bringing her race from the back of the bus when they rode to work both earned a place in history. The movie offers only a glimpse of Johnson's life away from NASA. The single mother of three daughters has a new husband who is still in her life. Oscar Shows No Love For ...

Katherine Johnson Led African American Efforts In Space Travel

... the first black students to be offered spots at the state’s flagship school, West Virginia University. Johnson left her job and enrolled in the graduate math program. At the end of her first session, she decided to leave school to start a family with her husband. She returned to teaching when her three daughters got older, but it was not until 1952 that a relative told her about positions opening at the all-black West Area Computing section at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics’ (NACA) Langley laboratory, headed by fellow West Virginian Dorothy Vaughan. Johnson and her husband decided to move the family to Newport News, to pursue the opportunity, and she began work at Langley in 1953. After just two weeks on the job, Director Vaughan assigned Johnson to a project in the Maneuver Loads Branch of the Flight Research ...

What Happened At The Oscars That You Didn‘t See On Tv

... and greeting Sandgren with a giant hug as he left the stage. Meryl Streep and her husband, Donald Gummer, stood watching Legend's performance on a monitor with their arms around each other. “I'm following you, man,” a lost Denzel Washington said to Viggo Mortensen in the hallway behind the stage. “You know where you're going.”. 7:57 p.m. PT: “Your best friend is behind you, John,” Chrissy Teigen said, as Ryan Gosling walked into the green room behind her and her husband, John Legend. “He name drops you every chance he gets, ‘Ryan and Emma.’”. In the stage wings, Salma Hayek read her presenting script aloud to rehearse—“Don't change it!” she said to a stage manager who was reviewing the pages with her. “I’m there with you 100%,“ Hayek’s co-presenter, David Oyelowo, told her. Meanwhile Hailee Steinfeld hustled down the hall backstage to give the Zootopia filmmakers their winning envelope. 7:03 p.m. PT: Thronged by well-wishers, and by presenter and last year’s best supporting actress winner Mark Rylance, Viola Davis stepped backstage with her ...

Casey Affleck Wins Best Actor For 'manchester By The Sea

... Katherine Johnson on stage, followed by a standing ovation for the former NASA mathematician and subject of the movie. "Thanks very much," she says. The actresses then present the Oscar for best documentary feature, which goes to O. J.: Made in America. "This is incredible," says director Ezra Edelman, who thanks the Academy for honoring "this nontraditional film" and pays tribute to not only the families of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman but also victims of "criminal injustice.". Last Slide Next Slide. 9:01: Colleen Atwood gets her fourth career Oscar for costume design, taking the award for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. In other news, it's La La Land's first loss of the night, though it can still break the record of 11 total Oscar wins. 8:58: Sorry, haters: That's OSCAR-WINNING Suicide Squad, which takes the honor for best makeup and hairstyling. ...

Taraji P. Henson’s Glamorous Oscars 2017 Alberta Ferretti Look Is An Homage To Katherine Johnson

... and high-slit detail of the silhouette also gave a heavy nod to the glamour of Old Hollywood, an era that her stylist Jason Bolden explained is a constant reference point for the two. “For this look, our inspiration was vintage Hollywood glamour—a consistent go-to for us,” he said. “Taraji is fun and known for the big characters she plays in film and on television. But she’s also multifaceted, so we went with showing her other side.”. Photo: Courtesy of Taraji P. Henson. When presented with the idea of working with Ferretti on the custom design, Henson immediately gravitated toward the line’s feminine slant. “I fell in love with the romantic clothes she creates for women,” she says. Henson and Bolden began researching and devising the look before the annual Oscar Nominations Luncheon. In between Henson filming Empire, Bolden flew to Chicago for a quick fitting with his client. “Fittings with Taraji are always so much fun! Short and sweet is how ...

Hidden Figures Fun Facts

... 7. There’s a scene in Hidden Figures that may have fans of 1983’s The Right Stuff — about the same space mission, but with a focus on the astronauts — doing a double take. The now-iconic scene of seven astronauts walking down a hallway was mirrored in Hidden Figures — only this time with Octavia Spencer’s Dorothy Vaughan leading the pack of women working at NASA. Watch the PEOPLE & EW Red Carpet Live Oscars preshow on Feb. 26 at 5 p.m. ET/2 p.m. PT on the People/Entertainment Weekly Network (PEN). Go to __link__/PEN, or download the app on your favorite device. Then watch our Red Carpet Fashion Wrap-Up after the Oscars. 8. John Glenn, who — with the help of the women’s calculations — became the first American astronaut to orbit Earth three times, admitted he was not a fan of The Right Stuff. In a 1996 interview , Glenn revealed he didn’t think the film “accurately reflected the people involved in the Mercury program, including me.” He died before getting to watch Hidden Figures. 9. Henson was the only actress of the three leading ladies who had the ...

Meet Katherine Johnson, Nationally Ranked Cyclocross Rider

... age group. What is cyclocross exactly. It’s a combination of road biking, mountain biking and riding on gravel. It’s usually on a mile-, or two-mile-long course and there’s a lot of obstacles put in your way. There’s run-ups, sometimes there’s stairs and run up those while carrying your bike and then remount. How long have you been competing. This is my first season racing. I did a handful of races last year just to try it out, but this was my first year riding competitively. I’m still kind of a rookie. How do you practice for this. A lot of people train on the road or do road racing over the summer months to work on power and speed work for those flat power sections. A lot of mountain biking is tied into it; like working on your bike-handling skills, your technical skills and getting around things as fast as possible. It involves a good amount of running, so that will be tied into your training too. What’s your ...