Hidden Figures

Margot Lee Shetterly

Hidden Figures This is the true story of four African-American female mathematicians at NASA who were a part of the greatest moments in the space race. Before John Glenn and Neil Armstrong made history, a group of female mathematicians known as human computers calculated the numbers that would launch the space program. Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden broke through barriers of race and gender to change the world forever.

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