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Hidden Figures ranked fourth on Prime Video's streaming chart as of Jul. 11 (per FlixPatrol), eight years after its breakout ...
The "Dorothy Vaughan Center in Honor of the Women of Apollo" is one of Johnson Space Center's original permanent structures built in 1963. Today it serves as an administrative support building.
Dorothy Vaughan, one of the first Black women to be promoted to a supervisory role at NASA, was an expert programmer in the early days of electronic computing.
Vaughan was portrayed by Octavia Spencer in the 2016 movie "Hidden Figures," garnering Spencer an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Allison Schroeder, a Melbourne High graduate ...
Dorothy Vaughan was one of the first Black women hired at the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory at NACA in 1943, where she performed mathematical computations for engineers conducting wind ...
Though they may never shed the label, the women who worked for NASA as human computers during the space race are no longer "hidden figures," and they now have Congressional Gold Medals to prove it.