Dorothy Vaughan was a trailblazing mathematician and computer programmer who significantly contributed to the U.S. space program. As NACA’s (later NASA) first African American manager, she specialized ...

Dorothy (West) Vaughan, 55, Springtown, Texas, died Sept. 2, 2009. She was born Feb. 2, 1954. She is survived by her mother, Margie Lea West, Leesport; her two sons ...

Last month, NASA honored the late Dorothy Vaughan — a mathematician, programmer and its first Black manager at the Langley ...