Hidden Figures: The Untold Story of the African American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race

The Top 10 Sunday Times Bestseller NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Oscar Nominated For Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay Set amid the civil rights movement, the never-before-told true story of NASA’s African-American female mathematicians who played a crucial role in America’s space program. Before Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of professionals worked as ‘Human Computers’, calculating the flight paths that would enable these historic achievements. Among these were a coterie of bright, talented African-American women. Segregated from their white counterparts, these ‘colored computers’ used pencil and paper to write the equations that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. Moving from World War II through NASA’s golden age, touching on the civil rights era, the Space Race, the Cold War, and the women’s rights movement, Hidden Figures interweaves a rich history of mankind’s greatest adventure with the intimate stories of five courageous women whose work forever changed the world. The book, a bestseller, intricately weaves the social and ethnic fabric of the 20th century United States, highlighting the significant contributions of African-American women in the field of science. It's a Sunday Times bestselling book that offers a unique perspective on the era's societal studies. For fans of Laura Freeman (In the Kitchen), Kai Bird (The Outlier), Salena Godden (The Good Immigrant), Sabrina Mahfouz (These Bodies of Water), and Jeffrey Kluger (Apollo 8).