NASA’s “Hidden Figures” honored in Congressional Gold Medal ceremony
Washington — A group of Black women central to NASA’s success during the space race and known as the “Hidden Figures” were honored Wednesday in a Congressional Gold Medal ceremony on Capitol Hill.
“This has been a long time coming,” House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, said at the ceremony. “At a time in America when our nation was divided by color and often by gender, these women dared to step into the fields where they had previously been unwelcome.”
The “Hidden Figures” were considered crucial to NASA’s work from 1930-1970. They were mathematicians and engineers who played a role in the earliest American space flights — calculating rocket trajectories and earth orbits and helping to put men on the moon.
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