In the meanwhile, Mary is assigned to the heat shield team of the space capsule where she finds a flaw in the design. She becomes the first black woman in the team and naturally faces backlash from her colleagues, especially engineer Paul Stafford, who is dismissive of her abilities. In order to launch American astronauts into space, Vivian Mitchell, the supervisor, assigns Katherine to Al Harrison’s Space Task Group, due to her skills in analytic geometry. The entire unit is segregated by race and sex.Īfter the successful Soviet launch of Yuri Gagarin, there is an added pressure on NASA to show results. Her colleagues include Mary Jackson, an aspiring engineer, and Dorothy Vaughan, their unofficial acting supervisor. Katherine Goble is a mathematician who works as a human computer in the West Area Computers division in Langley, Virginia. The premise of ‘Hidden Figures’ starts in 1961 as we are introduced to the chief characters.
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