Hidden Figures
Hidden Figures is a movie directed by Theodore Melfi which relates the story of Katherine Goble, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson, a mathematician that worked as a human computer in a group where gender discrimination and racism is very present. Katherine and a group of women worked in the West Area Computers of the Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia where they were assigned to different jobs as they were needed. After Yuri Gagarin was launched to space, United States were in a hurry to send their astronauts into space, so Katherine was assigned to work on the program and Mary was assigned to work on the capsule heat shield while Dorothy was still in charge of the rest of the women. After being battered by they job mates, Katherine demonstrated her knowledge to solve difficult equations needed for the launching and for picking up the astronaut, Mary was an essential part of the team that developed the heat shield and finally, Dorothy trained the group of women to progra