NASA scientist Katherine Johnson was instrumental in getting people to the moon. Here are some of the lessons one mathematics professor believes she taught us all.
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The pioneering African-American "computer" has died aged 101.
NASA has made significant steps in making explicit appeals to women to support space exploration, but it might not be doing enough to gather needed political support.
Until La La Land can star two actors of colour or two women in the leading roles, Hollywood will have a diversity problem.
Letters from would-be girl astronauts in the 1960s tell part of the complicated story of sexism – in both NASA and the US at large – at the dawn of the space age.
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Professor of Planetary and Space Sciences, The Open University
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Associate Professor of History, DePaul University
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Teaching Fellow in Film Studies, University of Warwick
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Professor of Strategy and Security Studies, US Air Force School of Advanced Air and Space Studies
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Professor of Mathematics, University of Richmond
