NASA on Friday officially renamed a West Virginia facility in honor of Katherine Johnson, an African-American mathematician whose work for NASA in the 1960s inspired the movie “Hidden Figures.” The center is now known as the Katherine Johnson Independent Verification and Validation Facility. Staff at the Fairmont facility are responsible for making sure the software on NASA’s high-profile missions runs safely and successfully, the center’s website states. Jim Bridenstine, NASA’s administrator, said the facility carries on Johnson’s legacy of “mission-critical computations.” “I am thrilled we are honoring Katherine Johnson in this way as she is a true American icon who overcame incredible obstacles and inspired so many,” Bridenstine said in a statement on Friday.

Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP Katherine Johnson poses in the Oscars press room on Feb. 26, 2017.

This isn’t the first time Johnson’s name will appear on a NASA building. In 2017, NASA dedicated a newly opened building at the Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, in Johnson’s honor. A rededication ceremony for the West Virginia center will take place at a later date. West Virginia’s Republican senator Shelley Moore Capito, who successfully pushed a bill through Congress calling for the facility’s renaming, praised the announcement on Friday.

So happy and proud to see Katherine Johnson’s legacy cemented at @NASAIVV, and even more so during #BlackHistoryMonth. #HiddenNoMorehttps://t.co/3NdIwDe9sJ — Shelley Moore Capito (@SenCapito) February 22, 2019

Johnson, a West Virginia native, was hired by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (which later became NASA) in 1953. She was part of a team of African-American female mathematicians who manually performed complex calculations for the space agency at the Langley Research Center ― all while being largely segregated from their white colleagues. Johnson went on to do trajectory analysis for America’s first human spaceflight in May 1961. She played a key role in crunching numbers for the orbital mission of John Glenn in 1962. Glenn was the first American to orbit the Earth. Johnson was also part of a team that performed calculations for the 1969 Apollo 11 mission. That spaceflight landed Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon. “At a time when racial segregation was prevalent throughout the southern United States, Johnson and fellow African American mathematicians Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson ― who was later promoted to engineer ― broke through racial barriers to achieve success in their careers at NASA,” the space agency said in its statement on Friday.

MARK RALSTON via Getty Images NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson (center) is accompanied by actresses Janelle Monae (left), Taraji P. Henson (second from right) and Octavia Spencer (right) as they present onstage at the 89th Oscars on February 26, 2017, in Hollywood, California.