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      • Since Vaughan died in 2008, the first audience she wanted to impress was the family, and she was proud to learn she did. “What I learned from playing Dorothy Vaughan is that I have a voice and that I have to use it for people who don't have a voice or whose voice is somehow subdued by whatever's happening in society,” she told THR.
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  2. Jan 24, 2017 · "Hidden Figures" focuses on three computers, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson and Dorothy Vaughan. Here are brief biographies of these women: Mary Jackson (1921-2005)

  3. Feb 28, 2017 · Science. Feb 28, 2017 7:12 AM. Hidden Figures: the true story behind the women who changed Nasa's place in the Space Race. WIRED speaks to Nasa's chief historian Bill Barry about the role the...

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  4. Dec 6, 2016 · In 2016, the story of Jackson and her NASA colleagues Katherine G. Johnson and Dorothy Johnson Vaughan, who calculated flight trajectories for project Mercury and the Apollo program in the 1960s ...

  5. Nov 14, 2016 · During the final decade of her career, Vaughan worked closely with fellow NASA mathematicians Katherine G. Johnson and Mary Jackson on the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit, which...

  6. Jan 30, 2017 · Since Vaughan died in 2008, the first audience she wanted to impress was the family, and she was proud to learn she did. “What I learned from playing Dorothy Vaughan is that I have a...

  7. Jan 26, 2017 · The story sheds light on the significant contributions of the three women— Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson —but also the broader impact that women had behind the scenes at NASA. Johnson, Vaughan, and Jackson all began their careers at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) —which later became NASA ...

  8. Jan 19, 2024 · Mary W. Jackson. Mary’s own path to an engineering career at the NASA Langley Research Center was far from direct. A native of Hampton, Virginia, she graduated from Hampton Institute in 1942 with a dual degree in Math and Physical Sciences, and accepted a job as a math teacher at a black school in Calvert County, Maryland. Read Her Biography.