1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Hidden Figures Congressional Gold Medal Act . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) Katherine Johnson was born on August 26, 1918, in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. (2) In 1953, Katherine Johnson began her career in aeronautics as a computer in the segregated West Area Computing unit of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (referred to in this section as NACA ). (3) As a member of the Flight Research Division, Katherine Johnson analyzed data from flight tests. After NACA was reformulated into the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (referred to in this section as NASA ), Johnson— (A) calculated the trajectory for Alan Shepard’s Freedom 7 mission in 1961, which was the first human spaceflight by an individual from the United States; (B) coauthored a report that provided the equations for describing orbital spaceflight with a specified landing point, which made her the first woman to be recognized as an author of a report from the Flight Research Division; (C) was asked to verify the calculations when electronic computers at NASA were used to calculate the orbit for John Glenn’s Friendship 7 mission