A group of Black female scientists and mathematicians known as NASA's “ Hidden Figures” were honored with Congressional Gold Medals on Wednesday, the highest award given to citizens by ...

“The women we honor today made it possible for Earthlings to lift beyond the bounds of Earth,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. Leaders said, they hope the stories of these “hidden ...

the nation’s highest civilian honor, under the Hidden Figures Congressional Gold Medal Act. Her African American colleagues at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Virginia – Christine Darden ...

Related: NASA's 'Hidden Figures' to be awarded Congressional Gold ... one of the highest civilian awards in the United States. "We are honored that NASA continues to celebrate the legacy of ...

That was until 2016, when the best-selling novel and movie “Hidden Figures ... the head of NASA said it’s only appropriate rename a facility in Johnson’s honor in her home state of ...

Hidden Figures’ Real-Life NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson ... I will forever be honored to have been apart of bringing your story to life. You/your story was hidden thank GOD you ...

"Hidden Figures," a 2016 ... Johnson retired from NASA In 1986. At age 97, in 2015, she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the United States.

But Hidden Figures highlights NASA's (relatively) progressive attitude for ... Virginia was named in Johnson's honor. And yet, despite the accolades and getting the Hollywood treatment, she ...

Margot Lee Shetterly wrote the book Hidden Figures and said that ... at the Academy Awards in 2017 and NASA named the Computational Research Facility in her honor.

Behind the scenes, their triumphs were enabled by hundreds of unheralded NASA workers, including "human computers" who calculated their orbital trajectories. "Hidden Figures," a 2016 book by ...