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    'Hidden Figures': How Black Women Did The Math That Put Men On The Moon



    Many Americans are familiar with the astronaut heroes of the 20th century space race — names like Gus Grissom and Neil Armstrong. But who did the calculations that would successfully land these men on the moon?

    Several of the NASA researchers who made space flight possible were women. Among them were black women who played critical roles in the aeronautics industry even as Jim Crow was alive and well.

    "When the first five black women took their seat in the office in 1943, it was in a segregated office with a 'colored girls' bathroom and a table for the 'colored' computers," author Margot Lee Shetterly tells NPR's Michel Martin.

    Shetterly, a Hampton, Va., native and daughter of a former Langley scientist, tells the story of these women in the new book Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race. The book has already been adapted for the big screen; the film starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer and Janelle Monae premieres in January.



    http://www.npr.org/2016/09/25/495179...en-on-the-moon


    Make no doubt ... names like Gus Grissom and Neil Armstrong are American Hero's who made the choice to be locked into a Missile and shot into space ... but someone had to aim the Missile and calculate the trajectory, or they would have been just another train-monkey out for a ride.




    Hidden Figures

    The American Dream And The Untold Story Of The Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win The Space Race




    An account of the previously unheralded but pivotal contributions of NASA's African-American women mathematicians to America's space program describes how they were segregated from their white counterparts by Jim Crow laws in spite of their groundbreaking successes.

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    Thanks. Looks like a good movie. I like these types of stories. I will definitely watch and may read the book over the holidays. Thanks again.
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    I got the Book for my Wife for Christmas ...

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    I'll have to see it.

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