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Hidden Figures

"Genius has no race,


Strenght has no gender,
Courage has no limit."

Genders: Biografy, Drama and History.

Director: Theodore Melfi


Mary Jackson
was an American mathematician and aerospace engineer at the
NASA, she took advanced engineering classes and, in 1958,
became NASA's first black female engineer.
In 2019, Jackson was posthumously awarded
the Congressional Gold Medal. In 2021, the Washington, D.C.
headquarters of NASA was renamed the Mary W. Jackson NASA
Headquarters.
Katherine Jonhson was an mathematician as a NASA employee
were critical to success of the first and subsequent US. Crewed
spaceflights.
Johnson's work included calculating trajectories, launch
windows for astronauts like, Alan Shepard, the first American in
space, John Glenn, the first American in orbit.
She was known as a "human computer".
Dorothy Vaughan was na mathematician and human
computer who worked for NASA, she was the first African-
American woman to receive a promotion and supervise a
group of staff.
In 2019, Vaughan was honored with the Congressional Gold
Medal posthumously.
This three woman served as
the brains behind one of the greatest
operations in history.

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