I am reading the book Hidden Figures, the book about the women who worked for NACA and later NASA , computing equations about aircraft, and later spacecraft and flight trajectories and what have you. In fact the women who were doing the work were called computers, before that referred to electronic computers.
Who would think that a story about women doing math could be interesting, but Margot Lee Shetterly was able to accomplish that.
You may not have heard of the book, but this may sound familiar, because it was made into a movie of the same name: Hidden Figures. I really enjoyed the movie, so of course, I wanted to read the book!
Little did I know, but one of the main characters to this story, Katherine Johnson, turned 100 years old yesterday, August 26, 2018! Hers is quite a story, and she deserves the recognition and accolades afforded to her by this book, and by this country!
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