A movie about Amway. The film tells the story of an African-American mathematician played by Hansen who formed a think tank with two "colleagues" Spencer and Monáe in 1962. The three female African-American protagonists were separated due to their gender. Because of his skin color, in the United States where segregation still existed in the middle of the last century, he relied on his trustworthy knowledge and character to contribute to the successful orbit of the earth by astronaut John Glenn and gain respect.

Grandma Katherine Johnson passed away this morning at the age of 101. who is she?

In 1962, the Soviet Union’s Gagarin ascended to the sky a year earlier, and the Americans were desperately trying to catch up. On February 20 of that year, the Americans planned to use the Hercules rocket to send the Mercury spacecraft into Earth orbit, which would carry astronaut John Glenn. If successful, he would be the first to enter Earth orbit. American, the third American to enter the universe (the first two were both parabolic ballistic suborbital flights) and the fifth Earthling to enter the universe.

When flying around the world, it becomes very troublesome to calculate the ballistic trajectory of the spacecraft, because many times the spacecraft is in the communication blind zone, unable to communicate, let alone remote control.

NASA scientists used computers that were still very naive at the time to deduce the entire flight process for Glenn. Glenn expressed distrust of these guys who often crashed. "Call that girl, and as long as she makes the decision, I can go to heaven at any time."

That girl was 42-year-old Katherine Johnson, NASA's mathematician responsible for ballistic calculations. When she joined NASA's predecessor, then called the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), in 1953, her position was "computer," that is, computer, a human computer. Before that, she taught math, French and music at a high school. Before that, she was the first black female graduate student at West Virginia State University.

NACA’s human computers all work in the west wing of the headquarters building, and they are all black women.

You can watch these stories in the movie "Hidden Figures". This Chinese translation actually loses a large part of the "god". Figure is also a number. Hidden refers to the fact that it was not until 2005 that the stories of early black women at NASA came to public view.

Katherine retired from NASA in 1986, the Mercury Project, the Gemini Project, the Apollo Project, and the space shuttle era. She is a hidden number in the solutions to countless equations that determine the fate of astronauts in American manned spaceflight.

In 2015, she received the Medal of Freedom from Obama. In 2016, the movie "Hidden Figures" based on her and other early black female employees of NASA was released. In 2019, on her 100th birthday, the West Wing building where she once worked was named the Katherine Johnson Building.

Grandma, To infinity, and beyond.