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Just for info. if you're scratching around for a good film to watch.
I watched Lion and Hidden Figures at the weekend. Both great films.
Hidden Figures particularly was inspiring, a true story about three African-American women in the early 60's who overcame prejudice to work in major roles in getting America into space.
Dorothy Vaughn took the State of Virginia to court for the right to study at a segregated white college (and then she was only allowed to go to class in the evenings) to be NASAs first aeronautical engineer. Katherine Johnson, a brilliant analytical geometrist, calculated the trajectory to get Alan Shepherd into space(USAs first man in space) then John Glenn into orbit and back down again, including developing new mathematics such as turning an elliptical orbit into a parabolic orbit. Mary Jackson taught herself Fortran and how to program a card punch computer on her break time and ended up running the first IBM computer at Nasa. This was at a time when they had to use segregated toilets and weren't allowed to get a coffee from the same machine as the white staff.
Lion is the true story of a little Indian boy who was separated from his family, ended up lost in a childrens home, then was adopted by a Tasmanian couple. Twenty five years later he went back to India to find his family.
I watched Lion and Hidden Figures at the weekend. Both great films.
Hidden Figures particularly was inspiring, a true story about three African-American women in the early 60's who overcame prejudice to work in major roles in getting America into space.
Dorothy Vaughn took the State of Virginia to court for the right to study at a segregated white college (and then she was only allowed to go to class in the evenings) to be NASAs first aeronautical engineer. Katherine Johnson, a brilliant analytical geometrist, calculated the trajectory to get Alan Shepherd into space(USAs first man in space) then John Glenn into orbit and back down again, including developing new mathematics such as turning an elliptical orbit into a parabolic orbit. Mary Jackson taught herself Fortran and how to program a card punch computer on her break time and ended up running the first IBM computer at Nasa. This was at a time when they had to use segregated toilets and weren't allowed to get a coffee from the same machine as the white staff.
Lion is the true story of a little Indian boy who was separated from his family, ended up lost in a childrens home, then was adopted by a Tasmanian couple. Twenty five years later he went back to India to find his family.
