After working as a teacher and being a stay-at-home mum, Ms Johnson began working for Nasa's predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics Naca , in There, she had the job title "computer" and was tasked with calculating trajectories for early US space missions. During the space race between the US and the former Soviet Union, Ms Johnson and her African-American colleagues worked in separate facilities to white workers, and used different toilets and dining areas. She always said she was too busy with her work to be concerned about being treated unequally.
Never had. I'm as good as anybody, but no better. Nasa led tributes to Ms Johnson following her death, describing her as an "American hero" whose "pioneering legacy will never be forgotten".
You changed the narrative Godspeed, Katherine Johnson," she wrote on Twitter. Actress Taraji P. Henson, who played Ms Johnson in Hidden Figures, thanked the mathematician for sharing her "intelligence, poise, grace and beauty with the world". Your legacy will live on…" she wrote on Twitter. How black women first started working for Nasa. New female space record for Nasa astronaut. Did you know Edit. And Katherine Johnson's calculations more realistically actually took just!
Goofs The drama of John Glenn's malfunctioning heat shield was not followed in real time by the U. During the Mercury program, NASA was acutely aware of the public relations importance of the space program, and Mission Control staff were focused on dealing with the fault and not on feeding news releases promptly to the media while the problem was actively being resolved.
User reviews Review. Top review. Punches all my buttons: segregation, space, engineering, computers. I'm an engineer. I designed computers, I grew up in the south during the s and s. I was heavily involved in the space race at an early age and watched every launch and recovery on black-and-white TV.
I never saw separate restrooms and drinking fountains for "colored" but they were there. I never rode on segregated public buses, but they were there and I knew it. This movie, "Hidden Figures," brings all of these worlds back to me.
No, it's not a painstakingly accurate picture. NASA didn't have flat-panel screens back then. Communications between the ground and the Mercury capsules were not static-free. But a lot of this movie feels real.
Very real. The protagonists in this movie are three women of color working in one of the most unwelcoming environments they might hope to find: NASA Langley, Virginia, in As women, they were employed as human "computers" because they were less expensive and they got their numbers right.
As "colored" folk, they got their own separate and sparse restrooms and their own, separate dining facilities. At the same time, civil unrest was rising in the towns. This is the time of Martin Luther King's rise to prominence. It's a time just before the rise of militant civil rights groups. It's a time when resistance to segregation and discrimination was still civil, but as the movie shows, that resistance was beginning to firm up and become widespread.
There are several reasons to see this movie: from a civil rights perspective; from a feminism perspective; from the perspective of the early space race when we lagged the Soviet Union, badly. If you lived during this time, see the movie to remember. If you were born later, see this movie to see what things were like. FAQ 2. In addition to the computing pool, the toilets and cafeteria at Langley were also racially segregated at the time. Over the next four years, she worked alongside aeronautical engineers analysing data from flight tests.
At the same time, the space race between the US and the Soviet Union was heating up. In , the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1 — the first artificial Earth satellite — and in April , cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person to journey into space and orbit Earth. In May , astronaut Alan Shepard became the first US citizen and second person in the world to go to space.
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