(CNN) A spacecraft named for the famed NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson has arrived at the International Space Station with about 8,000 pounds of cargo in tow. The S.S. Katherine Johnson, a Northrop Grumman Cygnus resupply spacecraft, launched on Saturday from a NASA facility in Virginia and made it to the space station early Monday morning. It also brings advanced computing to the space station and upgrades to clean air and water systems for the crew there. Johnson's work made early space missions possible Johnson died last year at age 101. The pioneering mathematician was part of NASA's "Computer Pool," a group of mathematicians whose data powered the agency's first successful space missions.

Source: The Nation February 22, 2021 18:06 UTC