John Glenn successfully completed three of a scheduled seven orbit flight. His Friendship 7 Mission turned the tide in the space race, propelling NASA to the moon in 1969. Mary Jackson became NASA’s and America’s first female African-American aeronautical engineer. In 1979, she was appointed Langley’s Women’s Program Manager, where she fought to advance women of all colors. Dorothy Vaughan became NASA’s first African-American Supervisor. As a Fortran specialist, on the frontier of electronic computing, she was regarded as one of the most brilliant minds at NASA. Katherine Johnson went on to perform calculations for the Apollo 11 mission to the moon and the Space Shuttle. In 2016, NASA dedicated the Katherine G. Johnson Computational Building in honor of her groundbreaking work in space travel. At the age of 97, Katherine was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and celebrated her 56th anniversary with Jim Johnson.
Favorite based / loosely based on actual events movies
Hidden Figures (2016) dir. Theodore Melfi
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Math movies 💯🌌📉
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