Posted on 07/19/2019 3:19:56 PM PDT by Eddie01
A new film, Hidden Figures, tells the story of the maths wizards who Nasa relied on.
When John Glenn was waiting to be fired into orbit aboard Friendship 7 in 1962, there was one person he trusted with the complex trajectory calculations required to bring him down safely from his orbital spaceflight: Katherine Johnson, an African-American mathematician who worked in Nasa’s segregated west area computers division.
“Get the girl, check the numbers,” Glenn said before boarding the rocket. “If she says they’re good, I’m good to go.”
Johnson was one of three female African-American mathematicians known as the “computers in skirts” who worked on the Redstone, Mercury and Apollo space programmes for Nasa. Now, thanks to an award-tipped movie, Johnson, Mary Jackson and Dorothy Vaughan are about to become more widely celebrated.
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Thank you!
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.
Gotta play the race/sex angle somehow.
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...
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.
>>>And look at their names — Karen, Mary, Dorothy. Not Quasheena, Latonsha, Quiresha.<<<
Oh, that’s their grandkids’ names.
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.
“Saw the movie, it was great.”
It was. Highly recommended.
They started voting democrap and have been stuck on stupid ever since!
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.
Agree - It is a great movie. I own it in my iTunes collection.I
The left is HIDING what these great ladies did to push a bs narrative.
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.
No shit? Thats awesome!
Not really. He was a great astronaut and Hidden Figures was a great movie.
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