Bringing in Katherine to act as a “human” computer to check over the numbers correctly, Al discovers her brilliant and resource mind, but, despite her talented intellect, is faced with office prejudice and fighting to be heard with her colleagues, including Paul Stafford (Jim Parsons), who seems to undermine and question Katherine’s work. With paranoia of sweeping across the nation after the Russians manage to launch a satellite into Earth’s orbit, NASA quickly hastens their plans for spaceflight, with Al Harrison (Kevin Costner), the director of the Space Task Group, in charge of protecting the astronauts from launch to re-entry, working out the math and science of the mission. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer), and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monae) are three African American women working at NASA, doing their best with unsatisfying roles and struggling to manage the time period’s commonplace bigotry towards their race and gender. Does this movie finds the right trajectory or does it miss it mark completely? Now, 20 th Century Fox and director Theodore Melfi present that particular untold story in the film Hidden Figures. However, many don’t know of the tale of the three NASA women (during the 1960s) and how they establish themselves and succeed in become important figures within the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Of course, many will know of the famous “Space Race” that the United States and Russia faced from 1957-1975. From the Challenger missions to the Apollo missions (the moon landing in Apollo 11 and the infamous Apollo 13) to the formation of the International Space Station in 1998, NASA has had an illustrious history in being a leader in the world’s space expedition. The history of NASA is filled with bountiful stories of men and women who served for the greater good in launch astronauts into space.
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