Henson hates math, and Octavia Spencer has a paralyzing fear of calculus, but that didn’t stop either actress from playing two of the most important mathematicians the world hasn’t ever known. Both women are starring in 'Hidden Figures,' a forthcoming film that tells the astonishing true story of female African-American mathematicians who were invaluable to NASA’s space program in the Jim Crow South in the early 1960s." New York Times: Uncovering a Tale of Rocket Science, Race and the ’60s - "Taraji P. Author of “ Interactive Aerospace Engineering and Design.” ( From Tom’s Reading List Former professor of aeronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ( Dava Newman, deputy administrator of NASA. Margot Lee Shetterly, author of the new book, “ Hidden Figures: The American Dream and Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win The Space Race.” Creator of the Human Computer Project. This hour On Point: the black women who steered the space race. Their story is about to be a big movie with Taraji P. Behind the scenes, there was another, most unlikely reality: a crew of black women doing the math that would guide those American rockets into space and home again. Think of NASA and the early days of the space race, and you’re likely to envision a bunch of white guys in crew cuts and chunky glasses at Mission Control. (Courtesy the New Journal and Guide / William Morrow) We’ll talk to the author of “Hidden Figures.” Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson and Christine Darden in a photo from their days as NASA mathematicians. The untold story of the black women - mathematicians - who helped NASA win the space race.
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