It’s hard to imagine a more perfect film for the holiday season. Hopper Stone / Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. Spend some time with Johnson in the video below (she’s still alive at 98). Henson, and Octavia Spencer in Hidden Figures. Henson took on the role of Katherine Goble, who worked alongside men to discover and apply the unknown mathematical equation to successfully launch Friendship 7 and beat the Soviets in the Space Race. Without their brains, without their hard work and dedication to NASA and the long hours that they worked together, we would have not made it into space. The film follows the story of three black women who worked in NASA in the early 1960’s. She sums up the importance of their contribution: A new film tells the stories of three women who made incalculable contributions to the space program: engineer Mary Jackson, mathematician Katherine Johnson and NASA supervisor Dorothy Vaughan. There’s also Dorothy Vaughan, played by Oscar-winner Octavia Spencer, who was NASA’s first African-American supervisor.Īctress Janelle Monáe, who plays Mary Jackson, admits that she had “no idea” of their story before reading the script. Henson in the film, who “calculated the trajectories for Glenn’s Friendship 7 mission” in 1962. Then there is mathematician Katherine Johnson, played by Taraji P. Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson, Dorothy Vaughan Hidden Figures is a 2016 American biographical drama film about African American female mathematicians who. They include Mary Jackson (pictured above), who may have been the only black female aeronautical engineer in the 1950s. Quite simply, these women were essential to the math that made space travel possible.
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