Considering the crucial role Katherine Johnson played in helping humankind reach space, it’s only fitting that a space craft would finally be named after her. Northrop Grumman has announced that it ...

Houston-based Starlab Space recently completed a space station mockup at NASA's Johnson Space Center. Astronauts will test its design and use it for training.

An artificial Martian environment is tucked deep within the sprawling campus of NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. And in two months, it will shelter four people for a 378-day mission that ...

HOUSTON, Texas -- NASA Administrator Bill Nelson has named Vanessa Wyche director of the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston and Janet Petro director of Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Wyche has ...

SPACEHAB, Inc. (Nasdaq: SPAB – News), a leading provider of commercial space services, today announced that its Johnson Engineering subsidiary made the competitive range as a finalist in the ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- If you hear a loud boom in the Clear Lake area on Saturday morning, NASA says you don't need to be alarmed. Engineers at NASA's Johnson Space Center are conducting a pressure ...

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Katherine Johnson became a household name circa 2016, when the bestselling book and Hollywood film Hidden Figures highlighted her role as a NASA mathematician during the space race (SN: 1/21/17, p. 28 ...

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 ...

The following is a statement from NASA Administrator Charles Bolden about former NASA mathematician and physicist Katherine Johnson being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom Tuesday: “Katherine ...