How three black women helped send John Glenn into orbit

gardian ^ | Wed 14 Feb 2018 | Edward Helmore

[TigersEye]

Thank you!

[originalbuckeye]

It was an enjoyable movie. But the PC crowd had a field day with some of the ‘facts’. Yes, those women were PART OF THE TEAM at NASA. No more important than most of the men, and a lot less important than some of the men. A review of the movie in the UK Telegraph had a much less fawning appraisal of the movie. They did point out that Katherine Johnson used ANY RESTROOM THAT SHE WANTED. Just ONE of the ‘facts’ that was rewritten to make the 3 Black women seem much more put upon. There were several of those rewritten facts that were in the Telegraph review; that’s the one I remember.

[Intolerant in NJ]

Not quite the way I heard it - Poppy Northcutt was apparently the first woman to work on the Apollo Moon Project and was in charge of the entire return-to-earth phase of all flights - but then she wasn't of the black persuasion and as is the command these days, shan't be mentioned under penalty of being branded a racist for suggesting that any white might be as competent as some black - Poppy Northcutt was a pioneer - the first woman to work as an engineer in Apollo Mission Control - (and she was a real good-looker too, which wasn't a sexist comment back in the days of Apollo 11).....

[IronJack]

Gotta play the race/sex angle somehow.

[CondoleezzaProtege]

Cultural deterioration has hit just about every facet of society. Not just one race. And it has to do with loss of faith and central role church played in people’s lives...along with loss of civic identity and cohesion..

Lost values like: patriotism - pride, devotion, and service to one’s country...and home, family...respect for elders among other things.

In the Cold War and with World War II still fresh on people’s minds: people we knew what we stood for even in the midst of the domestic turmoil which marked the 60s...

[Eddie01]

Dig in a little before you dismiss out of hand. You owe this forum that much.

I believe it based on my efforts. ...and what a great counter to the lefts BS narrative.

[Pilgrim's Progress]

>>>And look at their names — Karen, Mary, Dorothy. Not Quasheena, Latonsha, Quiresha.<<<

Oh, that’s their grandkids’ names.

[BuffaloJack]

I liked John Glenn, he was a good man. When I was about 10, John Glenn took me fishing with him almost every Sunday during the summer. We lived in Hampton, VA, a few miles from Langley Air Force Base.

[be-baw]

“Saw the movie, it was great.”

It was. Highly recommended.

[Bommer]

They started voting democrap and have been stuck on stupid ever since!

[yarddog]

I used to work the Tidewater area.

Langley was a beautiful base, sort of reminded me of a college campus. Fort Eustis on the other hand was a dump.

John Glenn would not have been stationed at Langley tho. He was a Marine.

[JaguarXKE]

Agree - It is a great movie. I own it in my iTunes collection.I

[Eddie01]

The left is HIDING what these great ladies did to push a bs narrative.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

My husband, who worked in these kinds of programs for the government, is skeptical about how much of the movie is accurate and how much has been embellished for political correctness

Working in these kinds of programs, your husband is doubtless aware that the role of any single person in a vast enterprise like the space program is going to be relatively small in comparison to the collective effort. They could have made a movie about anyone in the space program, up to and including the astronauts, and it could truthfully be said by someone that their roles were over-emphasized and over-embellished.

These women did good work and contributed to the space program, while having an interesting story which made for an entertaining movie.

[wgmalabama]

https://pumpkinperson.com/2018/07/30/iq-differences-in-height-by-race-sex/

Maybe they were tall black women. They were 9 feet tall amazon black women.

[gaijin]

[Eddie01]

No shit? Thats awesome!

[altura]

Not really. He was a great astronaut and Hidden Figures was a great movie.

[gaijin]

[MIchaelTArchangel]

https://www.freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=3765295%2C39