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“When the Computer Wore a Skirt: NASA's Human Computers” explores the history and personalities the film and book “Hidden Figures."

Figures." before a computer was an object in your pocket it was a job description, a human being who did exhausting mathematical calculations on paper. nasa employed human computers to help with the early space program before machines did all the math. back in 2019 nasa renamed the street in front of its national headquarters hidden figures way, and rightly so. every digit and decimal meant the difference between making history and causing tragedy. and last summer nasa renamed its headquarters after mary w. jackson, its first black female engineer. junel monet played her in the movie. these ar...

There was probably no way for him to know that behind these whiteys on the moon were a lot of black women. many of us learned of them through the 2017 movie "hidden figures." before a computer was an object in your pocket, it was a job description, a human being who did exhausting mathematical calculations on paper. nasa employed human computers to help with the early space program before machines did all the math. back in 2019, nasa renamed the street in front of its washington headquarters hidden figures way. and rightly so. every digit and decimal meant the difference between making history...

Niisry made.rsk man engineer.o >> liftoff. we have a liftoff. >> reporter: part of a small group of black women hired as mathematicians at nasa. she was known as one of the human computers at langley. jackson on the far right. her role portrayed in the film "hidden figures" by actress janelle monae. >> if you were a white male, would you wish to be an engineer? >> i wouldn't have to. i'd already be one. >> reporter: jackson became the first black female engineer at nasa in 1958 after being granted special permission to attend class at the then-segregated engineering school. >> i plan on being ...