Nathalia Holt, PBS Computers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, including Janez Lawson and Barbara Paulson. Credit: NASA/JPL. Featured Image [dropcap]In[/dropcap] 1965, Poppy Northcutt was the only female engineer at NASA’s Houston Mission Control. As she gazed at the men around her she thought to herself, I’m as smart as they are. Although she belonged among […]
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Gladys West, the ‘hidden figure’ of GPS, inducted into Air Force hall of fame | The Hill
Dr. Gladys West, a mathematician and one of the so-called “Hidden Figures” who was lesser known for her contributions to inventing GPS, has been inducted into the Air Force Space and Missile Pioneers Hall of Fame.
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Arkansas’ ‘Hidden Figure’ Raye Montague Dies at 83 | Ebony
Arkansas’ own “hidden figure” who worked as an engineer for the U.S. Navy and was seen as a leader for women of color in the engineering field has died at age 83.
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Nat Geo Developing ‘Hidden Figures’ Scripted Series | Colorlines
The series draws from the Oscar-nominated movie about the Black women whose mathematical expertise made some of NASA’s earliest missions possible.
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Why Hidden Figures should win the best picture Oscar – The Guardian
Theodore Melfi’s feelgood biopic about three African-American women working for Nasa in the 1960s breaks boundaries with a knowing kick of its kitten heel.
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On Being a Black Female Math Whiz During the Space Race
Growing up here in the 1970s, in the shadow of Langley Research Center, where workers helped revolutionize air flight and put Americans on the moon, Margot Lee Shetterly had a pretty fixed idea of what scientists looked like: They were middle class, African-American and worked at NASA, like her dad.
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