NASA’s unsung hero that history almost forgot-Hidden Figures#movie #shorts#nasa #spacerace
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Katherine Johnson was a brilliant Black mathematician working for NASA in the 1960s.
At that time, racial segregation and gender discrimination were everywhere.
Standing in a room full of white male scientists, she fought prejudice and calculated the critical orbit for astronaut John Glenn’s historic space flight.
Without her calculations, this famous space mission might have failed.
She and her fellow female mathematicians were hidden heroes whose great contributions were ignored for decades.
Movie: Hidden Figures
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No. "I didn't feel the segregation at NASA, because everybody there was doing research," says the real Katherine G. Johnson. "You had a mission and you worked on it, and it was important to you to do your job...and play bridge at lunch. I didn't feel any segregation. I knew it was there, but I didn't feel it." Even though much of the racism coming from Katherine's coworkers in the movie seems to be largely made up (in real life she claimed to be treated as a peer), the movie's depiction of state laws regarding the use of separate bathrooms, buses, etc. was very real. African-American computers had also been put in the segregated west section of the Langley campus and were dubbed the "West Computers." -WHROTV Interview