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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 ...
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]
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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.
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 .
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]