#KATHERINE JOHNSON NASA MOVIE DRIVER#
But it wasn’t until seven years ago, when her father started reminiscing about the Nasa “computers” – a term that predates laptops and PCs as we know them now, but was a job title like driver or lawyer – that Shetterly felt compelled to seek out and interview every remaining blouse and skirt-wearing “computer” who had worked at Langley in the 20th century. This historic film tells the story of NASA mathematicians Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson.
#KATHERINE JOHNSON NASA MOVIE MOVIE#
Her father worked at Nasa and during her childhood, she writes, she knew “that the face of science was brown like mine”. A space station supply ship named after the Black NASA mathematician featured in the movie Hidden Figures rocketed into orbit Saturday, the 59th anniversary. Shetterly, who like the women featured in Hidden Figures, lived in Hampton, Virginia, where Nasa’s Langley outpost is now stationed, knew their story almost all her life. Johnson instead used the unlabeled white women’s bathroom. But the real test, the real award, came from Katherine and her family loving it.” In fact, it was Mary Jackson, a NASA engineer also featured in the movie who did so. “We’d be thrilled about the Oscars if that happened. (Reuters) - Katherine Johnson, the black woman whose mathematical genius took her from a behind-the-scenes job in a segregated NASA as portrayed in the film Hidden Figures to a key role in. She became famous when her story was profiled in the movie Hidden Figures. One of the biggest compliments to the book and the movie is that Katherine Johnson and her family were very highly complimentary,” says Shetterly. Johnson’s calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to sending the first Americans into space. “I’m so happy with what the filmmakers did. Watch Taraji P Henson play a maths genius in Nasa film Hidden Figures.
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