Hidden Figures, and other matters…

Today we watched the trailer for Hidden Figures, a movie based on the book of the same name about three black women who were important figures in the space program at NASA. The women were Katherine Johnson (played by Taraji P. Henson), Mary Jackson (played by Janelle Monae), and Dorothy Vaughan (played by Octavia Spencer). At the time, computers were not advanced at all, so NASA needed humans to calculate launches, landings, and orbits. The people who did that were
called "computers".

It looks like the movie has not yet been released in Japan.

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