NASA honored the women of "Hidden Figures" this week by renaming the
street in front the space agency's Washington headquarters Hidden
Figures Way! The "Hidden Figures" book and film tells the story of
Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson, and Dorothy Vaughan, three members of
NASA's "human computers," a group of female mathematicians who provided
the reams of hand calculations that NASA needed to design satellites and
spacecraft and plan launches before the computer age.
The new street
name was unveiled at a dedication ceremony attended by the families of
Johnson, Vaughan, and Jackson, as well as Margot Lee Shetterly, the
author whose book "Hidden Figures" brought the stories of these
pioneering African American mathematicians to light.
