NASA research mathematician Katherine Johnson is photographed at her desk at Langley Research Center in 1966. Johnson made critical technical contributions during her career of 33 years, which ...

Successfully getting humans into space and back is risky business. However, it was made possible less than a century ago thanks to help from some extraordinary Black women known as ‘Hidden Figures’.

Harris was invited to speak about her book, “Hidden Human Computers: The Black Women of NASA,” by La Crosse’s community committee to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. The book tells the story not just ...