![]() ![]() And when she needs to go to the restroom, she has to walk across the entire NASA campus to the agency's segregated West Area computing unit. When they reluctantly have to agree that she will be working among them, they install a small coffee pot with a label "colored" for her to use. Her white male counterparts mistake her for the cleaning lady. But even as she computes high math she is experiencing racism and sexism at the office. Her unfaltering computations keep John Glenn safe as he orbits the earth. ![]() Taraji Henson interprets mathematician Katherine Johnson, the central figure in the story.Ī mother of three and a modest genius, Johnson had one goal in mind: solve the problem. She said that the film "will hopefully compel us to continue to look for these diamonds and educate our children." Spencer, who has already garnered award nominations for her role, added“ there were ceilings broken at NASA but the fact that the world didn’t know who they are lets us know that we still have work yet to do.” During the film's premiere, at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., Spencer spoke to VOA about the significance of this untold story. Oscar winner Octavia Spencer interprets Dorothy Vaughn. (Photo: Hopper Stone, courtesy 20th Century FOX) Henson) and Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer) celebrate their stunning achievements in one of the greatest operations in history. Mary Jackson (Janelle Monae, left), Katherine Johnson (Taraji P. ![]() Not only does Vaughn train herself and her team to learn the computer language of NASA's recently-installed IBM machines, she also recommends one of the women in her unit, mathematician Katherine Johnson, for the position of human computer Harrison is seeking. She is also very aware of how skills and knowledge can make her and her unit of African American women indispensable to the agency. The human computer scouting extends to the agency’s segregated West Area computing unit, where Dorothy Vaughn, the unit's acting manager, is trying in vain to convince her white supervisors to offer her the managerial position full time. At a time when computers were only people with very high IQs and calculating skills, Harrison is looking for a mathematical genius within NASA to help his department compute the orbit trajectory for Glenn's flight. Kevin Costner, who interprets Al Harrison, a composite of NASA managers, represents an equal opportunity boss, a scientist, whose only focus is getting a man into Earth orbit and beating the Russians to the moon. Kevin Costner stars as NASA official Al Harrison, in "Hidden Figures". ![]()
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