![]() ![]() She is mistaken for a janitor and the men act rudely towards her. Katherine enters the large area where white men are doing math equations. She tells Katherine they’ve never had a colored person in that department and not to embarrass her. Vivian escorts Katherine to the Flight Research Division elsewhere on the campus, telling her that it’s standard for women to wear skirts and no jewelry except maybe pearls. ![]() Dorothy suggests Katherine because she’s the best at numbers. She tells her the Space Test Group needs a new computer. Vivian Jackson (Kirsten Dunst), comes in to talk to Dorothy. Dorothy gives out new assignments to the group Mary wants to work as an engineer but now she is told she is just going to be assisting them. The three women work at the West Area Computers division of the center, segregated from Langley Research Center, along with many other black women who work as “computers,” doing math by hand. A man in the crowd, Paul Stafford (Jim Parsons), makes a snooty comment and is asked what his position is. The man in charge demands that Al Harrison (Kevin Costner) get them up there because they can’t justify the cost of a space program that doesn’t put anyone in space. They’re worried that the Soviets having access to space could allow them to spy on America. The Space Task Group has a meeting about how they are going to beat Russia, which has just had success with Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite. Dorothy manages to get the car up and running and the police officer provides them an escort to the NASA field center which they find ironic since it’s not usually a group of black people speeding to follow a police car. He asks if they are friends with the astronauts Mary answers that they are but it’s clear from the other’s expressions that they’re kept separate from them. He seems very well-versed in NASA and points out that the Americans have to beat the Russians in the Space Race. When they explain that they work at NASA, he changes his tune, vocalizing that he’s surprised they hire black women. ![]() A police officer stops and asks for identification. Henson) is stuck on the side of the road with her two coworkers that she carpools with - Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer) and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe). We jump forward to the 1961 in Virginia where an adult Katherine (Taraji P. ![]()
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