Hidden Figures

The New York Times Bestseller number one. The never-before-told real tale of NASA's African-American female mathematicians, who were instrumental in the country's space programme, is set against the backdrop of the civil rights struggle. Prior to Neil Armstrong setting foot on the moon, a team of experts known as "Human Computers" worked out the flight trajectories necessary to make these incredible feats possible. A group of intelligent, gifted African-American women were among them. These "coloured computers," who were kept apart from their white colleagues, wrote the equations that would send humans and rockets into space using a pencil and paper. Intimate accounts of five brave women whose contributions altered the course of history are woven into "Hidden Figures," which spans from World War II through NASA's heyday and touches on the Space Race, the Cold War, the civil rights movement, and the Cold War.