Henson), along with colleagues Dorothy Vaughn (Octavia Spencer) and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monae), join NASA as part of a segregated computer division. As NASA, including Space Task Group Director Al Harrison (Kevin Costner), is preparing to launch John Glenn into space on the Apollo 11 mission, they know that what they are doing is equally dangerous as it is groundbreaking.Īccordingly, they ask for some of the best minds in mathematics to join their team and an unlikely brilliant mind arises. In Hidden Figures, it's the late 1960s and NASA is racing with the Russians to win the space race.
#KATHERINE JOHNSON NASA QUOTES FULL#
By recognizing the full complement of extraordinary ordinary women who have contributed to the success of NASA, we can change our understanding of their abilities from the exception to the rule. Theodore Melfi directed Hidden Figures, which opened in theaters on December 25, 2016. But perhaps most important, Katherine Johnson’s story can be a doorway to the stories of all the other women, black and white, whose contributions have been overlooked. The biographical drama, which was based on true events, was adapted into a screenplay by Allison Schroeder and Theodore Melfi based off of the book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly.
#KATHERINE JOHNSON NASA QUOTES MOVIE#
You can make the world a better place.Hidden Figures movie quotes provide the dialogue for the film about the brilliant female African American mathematicians who helped NASA and the mission for the first American man orbiting Earth. Just keep trucking no matter what obstacles you face. The Girl who loves to Count I counted everything. Always remember that you can do anything, and you can change the world. I showed all the women that we could make a difference, and I showed the African-American community that we could make a difference. My work helped send astronauts to space, and later to the moon. If I had let hate and anger take over my body, I would have lost my respect and never gotten to where I am today. So remember, hate is never the answer. I had many reasons to hate the people who treated me unfairly, and told me I could never make a difference, but hate gets people nowhere
was a teacher who broke barriers at NASA and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015. I like to put it this way, “I don’t have a feeling of inferiority. Katherine Johnson, authored by EBONY JOY WILKINS, Ph.D. While I was working at NASA I was not always treated with equal respect as the white males were, I proved to so many people that, black or white, we all have the same potential to make a difference. While I was working in the computing unit, my mathematical abilities were gifted with mathematical abilities, and by using those skills I was able to be recognized and I was temporarily reassigned to a role in the Flight Research Division. My original position was working as a human computer. In 1959 I remarried to James Johnson, and we are still happily married. My husband died in 1956, from a brain tumor. Their names were Joylette, Constance, and Katherine, who we named after me. Some things will drop out of the public eye and will go away, but there will always be science, engineering, and technology. She was a math teacher at West Virginia State, and she was a great mentor to me. One of my main influences was Angie Turner King. Four years later, at age 18, I graduated from college with my Bachelor of Science degree for mathematics. Davis, hand-picked me and two other men to be the first African-American students offered spots at West Virginia State. West Virginia State University’s president, Dr. It’s just there… You’re either right or wrong. One of my favorite quotes explains why I love math. Hidden Figures is pro-science, prosmart people, pro-woman, anti-racism, and anti-Russia. I have always loved math, and my math gifts showed from a very young age.
I am a NASA employee, and my calculations were critical for the Friendship 7 mission and the Apollo 13 mission. There were no textbooks, so we had to write them.” “Everything was so new- the whole idea of going into space was new and daring. Katherine Johnson Speech by Story Mackey 6th grade Ms. Lawrence Library Media Specialist - Charlotte Woo.Administrative Assistant - Sarah Taylor.
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