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Director Ted Melfi, whose new movie "Hidden Figures" concerns the NASA mathematicians who helped John Glenn become the first American to orbit the Earth, talks about Glenn's passing. Photo: Getty ...

Four Black women who worked as scientists and mathematicians at NASA during the Space Race , known colloquially as “Hidden Figures ... instrumental in John Glenn's first orbit ...

They’re the inspiration for the award winning film, Hidden Figures ... who made it possible for John Glenn to orbit, who made ...

As the United States raced against Russia to put a man in space, NASA found untapped talent in a group of female African-American mathematicians that served as the brains behind one of the ...

Launch John Glenn’s Friendship 7 John Glenn’s Friendship ... her life but never let it get in her way. In the movie, Hidden Figures, she has to walk a long distance to use the colored women ...

Msgr. Paul v. Garrity In 1962, John Glenn was the first American to orbit the earth in a spacecraft called Friendship 7. The mission was to complete 7 trips around the world but was cut short because ...

The main character is Katherine G. Johnson, played by Taraji P. Henson, a widow with three kids working at NASA’s West ...

As the United States raced against Russia to put a man in space, NASA found untapped talent in a group of female African-American mathematicians that served as the brains behind one of the ...