A Computer Called Katherine: How Katherine. (NASA was even further repped at the Oscars by Firouz Naderi, the project manager for the Mars exploration, and Anousheh Ansari, the first self-funded woman to have gone into space - they appeared to collect the Best Foreign Language prize for Asghar Farhadi. Reaching for the Moon: The Autobiography of NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson. Johnson, who is 98-years-old and a Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, will see her Lego figure joined in the set by computer scientist Margaret Hamilton astronaut, physicist and educator Sally Ride astronomer Nancy Grace Roman and astronaut and physician Mae Jemison. NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson receives nations highest civilian honor. 1 in Australia.Īs Anthony D’Alessandro has noted, one of the things that’s been propelling Hidden Figures’ box office is its positive message about unification during a time when sociopolitical morale is near rock bottom. Johnson at that time was a human computer, a job title for people usually women assigned to do. It’s grossed a fantastic $153M domestically through this past weekend and is in staggered release internationally where it has made just over $30M including a two-week run at No. Let me do it, Katherine Johnson famously said when, in the late 1950s, her NASA colleagues were looking for a mathematician to join the team working to launch the first American into space. Oscars: Chile Selects 'Blanquita' For International Best Film Category LegoNASAWomenīased on the book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly, the Theodore Melfi-directed Hidden Figures is the first movie to tell these women’s stories.
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