Key Ideas

1. The book Hidden Figures tells the untold story of the African-American women mathematicians who played a vital role in the NASA space program.

2. The book focuses on the lives and contributions of three key women: Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson.

3. These women faced gender and racial discrimination within the space program but their brilliance and determination helped them overcome these obstacles.

4. Katherine Johnson was a brilliant mathematician who calculated the trajectory for the first American spaceflight and the Apollo 11 mission to the moon.

5. Dorothy Vau....
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