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FEATURE

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A Review of the Award-Winning
Hidden Figures
Racial segregation inside NASA during the 1960s
didn't hold back the aspirations of three female
African-American mathematicians
By MONICA ROZENFELD
Katherine Johnson (center), played by actress Taraji P. Henson, worked at NASA as a mathematician, helping NASA
launch its first successful manned mission around the Earth.
As the associate editor of The Institute, I couldn't miss out on seeing the film Hidden Figures, a based-on-a-true-story
movie about three female African-American mathematicians who helped launch NASA's first successful manned
mission around the Earth.
Known as Friendship 7, the mission took place on 20 February 1962, with astronaut John Glenn in the Mercury
capsule becoming the first American to orbit Earth. While that's the background against which the movie is set, the
untold story is about the women who helped make the voyage possible-and the discrimination they experienced
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