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Director Ted Melfi, whose new movie "Hidden Figures" concerns the NASA mathematicians who helped John Glenn become the first American to orbit the Earth, talks about Glenn's passing. Photo: Getty ...

Four Black women who worked as scientists and mathematicians at NASA during the Space Race , known colloquially as “Hidden Figures ... instrumental in John Glenn's first orbit ...

They’re the inspiration for the award winning film, Hidden Figures ... who made it possible for John Glenn to orbit, who made ...

Anticipating the movie “Hidden Figures,” I arrived to find nearly all seats were sold out Saturday night. I had not read the biography and I made a point to refrain from reading movie reviews or ...

As the United States raced against Russia to put a man in space, NASA found untapped talent in a group of female African-American mathematicians that served as the brains behind one of the ...

Based on the unbelievably true life stories of three of these women, known as "human computers", the film follows these women as they quickly rose the ranks of NASA alongside many of history's ...

As the United States raced against Russia to put a man in space, NASA found untapped talent in a group of female African-American mathematicians that served as the brains behind one of the ...