Hidden Figures is both an upcoming book and movie.
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Originally Posted by 20th Century Fox
Storyline
As the United States raced against Russia to put a man in space, NASA found untapped talent in a group of African-American female mathematicians that served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in U.S. history. Based on the unbelievably true life stories of three of these women, known as "human computers", we follow these women as they quickly rose the ranks of NASA alongside many of history's greatest minds specifically tasked with calculating the momentous launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit, and guaranteeing his safe return. Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Katherine Johnson crossed all gender, race, and professional lines while their brilliance and desire to dream big, beyond anything ever accomplished before by the human race, firmly cemented them in U.S. history as true American heroes.
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Trailer here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGAxf55sFLI
Australian release date - 16 Feb 2017
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Originally Posted by NASA Chief Charles Bolden, Vanity Fair
With a slide rule and a pencil, Katherine advanced the cause of human rights and the frontier of human achievement at the same time. Having graduated from high school at 14 and college at 18 at a time when African-Americans often did not go beyond the eighth grade, she used her amazing facility with geometry to calculate Alan Shepard’s flight path and took the Apollo 11 crew to the moon to orbit it, land on it, and return safely to Earth.
I was so proud of Katherine as I sat with hundreds of other guests in the East Room of the White House and watched as she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Obama last year.
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Vanity Fair article on "Katherine Johnson, the NASA Mathematician Who Advanced Human Rights with a Slide Rule and Pencil" -
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/20...ampaign=buffer