If you have an Amazon Prime account, please watch “Outlier – The Story of Katherine Johnson”.
She wasn’t a mere number cruncher but a very brilliant mathematician who overcame great odds, as a woman, and as a black woman but her work during her some +30 year at NASA can’t be ignored or dismissed.
No, the movie is in some part fiction, but Katherine Johnson’s real story is so much more interesting and much more inspirational.
If you had the time I would be happy to give you a point by point rebuttal of that link.
Some of the points have already been made on this thread.
This is propaganda, my FRiend.
NASA was a team operation—everyone worked as part of a team. To select one individual out for special recognition is unfair to all of the others who made similar contributions.
If you are really interested in this subject you should get up to speed on how NASA calculations were done in the early days of computers.
The computers crunched numbers, and then teams of people checked the computers because in those days they didn’t trust them!
Also, look at the pictures of this lady—and pretend you just met her as a stranger. Does she look black to you?
She does not look black to me, and she did not look black to her fellow NASA employees.
If you dig further you will find quotes from her where she can’t figure out what all the fuss is about and acknowledges the importance of everyone else on her team.
She seems like a good lady, but the propaganda that has been created around her (including NASA naming a building after her) is totally and completely insane—and an insult to everyone who ever worked at NASA—political correctness at its wackiest.