The film recounts the story of three black women who worked in professional positions at NASA and helped the United States advance during the Space Race. Mathematician Katherine Goble Johnson and her two colleagues, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson, worked in the segregated West Area Computers division of Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia.[5] Using the group's calculations, NASA supported John Glenn in becoming the first American astronaut to make a complete orbit of Earth.
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