Last week, NASA cut the ribbon on a brand new research facility in Hampton, Va., named after the acclaimed mathematician and human computer Katherine Johnson.

The Katherine G. Johnson Computational Research Facility opened Sept. 22, and is part of a strategic revitalization of the 100-year-old Langley Research Center where Johnson worked for 33 years. Much like Johnson once did, the new facility will be assisting Langley in modeling and simulating big data.

Johnson’s story made waves in D.C. after the book Hidden Figures hit the big screen last year and people first learned of the of African American women who worked as so-called “human computers” at NASA during the 1950s and 1960s.

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