Nominated for three Academy Awards including Best Picture, Hidden Figures tells the incredible untold story of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson- brilliant African-American women working at NASA who served as the brains behind the launch into orbit of astronaut John Glenn, a stunning achievement that turned around the Space Race.
At the end of the day, NASA was looking to get people on the moon, and blatant racism, at least compared to what was outside the NASA campus then, would presumably be not so prevalent.Katherine impresses Harrison by solving a complex mathematical equation from redacted documents, as the Soviet Union's successful launch of Yuri Gagarin increases pressure to send American astronauts into space.
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