The research center of is one of several accolades bestowed upon Johnson, who was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama in 2015. Johnson’s character and accomplishments than this building that will bear her name.” “I can’t imagine a better tribute to Mrs. Medal of Honor and a 40,000-square-foot Computational Research Facility at Langley Research Center named after NASAs Human Computer Katherine Johnson. “We’re here to honor the legacy of one of the most admired and inspirational people ever associated with NASA,” said Langley Director David Bowles. On May 5, 2016, she returned to NASA Langley, on the 55th anniversary of Shepard's historic flight, to attend a ceremony where a 30 million, 40,000-square-foot Computational Research Facility was named in her honor. The state of the art research center bearing her name, is run by the Langely Research Center, where Johnson worked from 1953 until her retirement in 1986. Johnson, a.k.a “the human computer”, was born in West Virginia in 1918, and was among a group of Black women hired by NASA to configure trajectory calculations in preparation for NASA’s first spaceflights. The ribbon-cutting ceremony was also attended by Johnson’s friends and family, students from Black Girls Code, the 21st Century Community Learning Centers program, and “special guests” from across the state including Virginia Gov. “It gives credit to everybody who helped.” “I always like something new,” Johnson said of the 37,000-square-foot facility. Katherine Johnson began working at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) and spent her first years analyzing data from flight tests and. Johnson Computational Research Facility in Hampton, Virginia. Johnson, attended the dedication ceremony at the $23 million Katherine G.
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NASA’s new research facility named after Katherine Johnson, the 99-year-old mathematician whose story came to life in Hidden Figures, is officially open. Johnson Computational Research Facility at the Langley Research Center, in Hampton, Va., the same location where she started her career at NACA.