Uh, well, do y’all need a tow or something?ĭorothy Vaughan: No, thank you, Officer. Mary Jackson: Hard being of service broken down on the side of the road, though. White Cop: Whole damn country’s counting on them. White Cop: We got to get a man up there before the commies do. White Cop: Those boys are the best we got. We work with those gentlemen all the time. You girls ever meet those astronauts? Mercury Seven? “ White Cop: Damn Russians are watching us right now. We don’t have a single person in this entire building that can handle analytic geometry?Īl Harrison: Tell me something else, Ruth, like we’re going to find such a person before the Russians plant a flag on the damn moon.” I need a mathematician.Īl Harrison: Another request. Paul Stafford: International Business Machines.Īl Harrison: Space is a business. Where’s… Where’s the machine?Īl Harrison: What’s it called? The initials? You know that, right? Because now that they can get up there, a bomb will follow. He look enlightened to you, Sam?Īl Harrison: And just so you know, he’s not wrong about what he said in there. But if that were the case shingles wouldn’t be flying off the heat shield, now would they?”Īl Harrison: How did that feel in there, Paul? You think you enlightened the administrator? Hm? No, he didn’t look enlightened to me. Paul Stafford: I can, I can handle that, Al.Īl Harrison: I’m sure you can, Paul. Stafford’s math as well as others’ on this floor from time to time. Good, then I’m going to need it by the end of the day.Īl Harrison: I’m also going to ask you to check Mr. I prefer it over Euclidean coordinates.Īl Harrison: Okay, good. Katherine Johnson: Orthogonalization algorithm. Geometry and speaking.Īl Harrison: You think you, uh, you think you can find me the Frenet Frame for this data using the Gram-Schmidt… Harrison.Īl Harrison: Does she handle Analytic Geometry? “ Al Harrison: Ruth, what’s the status on that computer? Katherine Johnson: Riddled with authority, no question.ĭorothy Vaughan: You don’t mess with Mrs.

Just make that pencil move as fast as your mind does you’ll be fine.

You’re better with the numbers than anyone in there, Katherine, and you know it. I’ll be back with the computers in a week, or out of a job entirely.ĭorothy Vaughan: Oh, please. Katherine Johnson: Truth be told, Dorothy, I don’t even know if I can keep up in that room. Any upward movement is movement for us all, just isn’t movement for me. Mary Jackson: It’s not fair, that’s a fact.ĭorothy Vaughan: What’s not fair is having the responsibility of a supervisor, but not the title or the pay.

Taraji P.“ ĭorothy Vaughan: I haven’t been late one day in ten years. Jenno Topping, Donna Gigliotti, Peter Chernin, Pharrell Williams, Theodore Melfi In the process, they inspired generations of people to aim high and dream big. In addition to helping launch John into orbit, the brilliant women crossed gender and race lines, defied expectations and battled stereotypes. Henson), and her two colleagues, Dorothy Vaughan ( Octavia Spencer) and Mary Jackson ( Janelle Monáe), whose groundbreaking calculations helped NASA catch up in the 'Space Race' with the Soviet Union and allowed John Glenn ( Glen Powell) to become the first American astronaut to successfully make a complete orbit of the Earth. The inspirational true story of the first female African-American mathematician, Katherine Johnson ( Taraji P.

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