EARLY ACCESS: Hidden Figures
Added 2024-03-03 15:00:05 +0000 UTC
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This was a great story. Glad it was finally told. Apollo 13 should also be on your list for part of space history.
Brandie Woodward
2024-03-04 16:11:15 +0000 UTCThere is a little story the whole part of the movie about the library reminded me of. There as a little black boy in Lake City, South Carolina. He was a genius from an early age. One day he went to the library to get some books on math and the librarian contacted the police because the library only served white patrons. Fortunately, the police saw through the idiocy and the librarian eventually let the kid have the books. Ronald McNair eventually went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduating with a PhD in Physics. He joined NASA in 1978 as one of 35 astronauts out of 10,000 applicants. He flew in space on the Space Shuttle Challenger spending a week in orbit. Sadly, his second trip on the Challenger was to prove fateful. He was one of the 7 astronauts killed when the Challenger blew up in 1986. The library building where he was almost refused a book because he was a person of color now bears his name as the Ronald McNair Life History Center
Stephen Koehler
2024-03-04 05:34:03 +0000 UTCThis is the kind of history that was forgotten. Katherine Johnson was one of the best computational minds at NASA. Sadly she recently passed away at the age of 101 (which is a prime number, a number divisible only by itself and zero). John Glenn went on to become the Senator from Ohio and did eventually make another trip to space on the Space Shuttle on STS-95. He was always one of those special people that made the working people feel like the special people they are. I'm from St Louis and we are so proud that all the first spaceships were made on the McDonnell-Douglas factory floor. McDonnell-Douglas went on to build the 2 man Gemini and the 3rd stage for the Apollo Saturn Five rocket that went to the moon. I've lived and breathed space history since I was a little guy devouring every book on the subject. But sadly, I never knew the history of these unique people until this movie gave them their proper place. I wonder how many other "Hidden Figures" there are in history. These ladies contributed so much and made it possible for us to accomplish the goals we set out to do with just their brains and the few educational opportunities afforded them.
Stephen Koehler
2024-03-04 05:19:54 +0000 UTC
