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  2. Hidden Figures - Wikipedia

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    Hidden Figures is a 2016 American biographical drama film directed by Theodore Melfi and written by Melfi and Allison Schroeder.It is loosely based on the 2016 non-fiction book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly about three female African-American mathematicians: Katherine Goble Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer), and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe), who worked ...

  3. Frances Northcutt - Wikipedia

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    Frances "Poppy" Northcutt (born August 10, 1943) is an American engineer and attorney who began her career as a computress and was later a member of the technical staff of NASA's Apollo program during the Space Race. During the Apollo 8 mission she became the first female engineer to work in NASA's Mission Control. [1] [2] [3]

  4. Story of NASA's black female mathematicians gets made ... - AOL

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    An upcoming book and movie both entitled Hidden Figures tell the story of NASA's female African-American mathematicians back in the 1960's. Johnson was one of those women who served as the space ...

  5. Hidden Figures (book) - Wikipedia

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    Taraji P. Henson starred as mathematician Katherine Johnson, Octavia Spencer played Dorothy Vaughan, an African-American mathematician who worked for NASA in 1949, and Janelle Monáe played Mary Jackson, the first female African-American engineer to work for NASA. [16] The movie made US$231.3 million. The budget of the film was US$25 million.

  6. Mary Jackson (engineer) - Wikipedia

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    In 1958, after taking engineering classes, she became NASA's first black female engineer. [2] After 34 years at NASA, Jackson had earned the most senior engineering title available. She realized she could not earn further promotions without becoming a supervisor. She accepted a demotion to become a manager of both the Federal Women's Program ...

  7. Margaret Hamilton (software engineer) - Wikipedia

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    Margaret Elaine Hamilton (née Heafield; born August 17, 1936) is an American computer scientist.She was director of the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, which developed on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo program.

  8. Joan Higginbotham - Wikipedia

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    Joan Elizabeth Higginbotham (born August 3, 1964) is an electrical engineer and a former NASA astronaut. She flew aboard Space Shuttle Discovery mission STS-116 as a mission specialist [ 2 ] and is the third African American woman to go into space, after Mae Jemison and Stephanie Wilson .

  9. JoAnn H. Morgan - Wikipedia

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    In 1963, Morgan began full-time employment at Kennedy Space Center. She was the only female engineer, and she recalls that she "would remain the only woman there for a long time." [4] Morgan was the only female engineer in the firing room during the launch of Apollo 11 on 16 July 1969. [6] [1]