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Hiding in plain sight: How the ‘hidden figures’ of NASA were found

By Madeline Fry Schultz
Published June 14, 2019 3:00am ET
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Hiding in plain sight: How the ‘hidden figures’ of NASA were found
If you want to get to NASA, you’ll have to go by Hidden Figures Way. Three black, female mathematicians were instrumental in supporting early NASA missions, but few people knew their names until several years ago. Then, in 2016, Margot Lee Shetterly wrote Hidden Figures, and an Oscar-nominated movie followed shortly afterward. Katherine Johnson, Dorothy […]

If you want to get to NASA, you’ll have to go by Hidden Figures Way.

Three black, female mathematicians were instrumental in supporting early NASA missions, but few people knew their names until several years ago. Then, in 2016, Margot Lee Shetterly wrote Hidden Figures, and an Oscar-nominated movie followed shortly afterward.

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