The ‘Hidden Figures’ Who Helped NASA Win The Space Race (Tom Ashbrook, On Point)

Think of NASA and the early days of the space race, and you’re likely to envision a bunch of white guys in crew cuts and chunky glasses at Mission Control. Behind the scenes, there was another, most unlikely reality: a crew of black women doing the math that would guide those American rockets into space and home again. Their story is about to be a big movie with Taraji P. Henson and more. We’ve got the woman who wrote it. This hour On Point: the black women who steered the space race. -Tom Ashbrook
Interview:
http://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2016/09/06/hidden-figures-book-movie-nasa