The series draws from the Oscar-nominated movie about the Black women whose mathematical expertise made some of NASA’s earliest missions possible.
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On Being a Black Female Math Whiz During the Space Race
Growing up here in the 1970s, in the shadow of Langley Research Center, where workers helped revolutionize air flight and put Americans on the moon, Margot Lee Shetterly had a pretty fixed idea of what scientists looked like: They were middle class, African-American and worked at NASA, like her dad.
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Meet the 3 African-American Female Scientists Who Helped Launch the Space Race
Taraji P. Henson (“Empire”) will star alongside Octavia Spencer (“The Help”) and musician Janelle Monae in a film that follows the journeys of three African-American mathematicians who worked at NASA during the space race.
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