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Director Ted Melfi, whose new movie "Hidden Figures" concerns the NASA mathematicians who helped John Glenn become the first American to orbit the Earth, talks about Glenn's passing. Photo: Getty ...

Four Black women who worked as scientists and mathematicians at NASA during the Space Race , known colloquially as “Hidden Figures ... instrumental in John Glenn's first orbit ...

As the United States raced against Russia to put a man in space, NASA found untapped talent in a group of female African-American mathematicians that served as the brains behind one of the ...

Glen Powell has recalled watching a rough cut of 2016’s Hidden Figures for the first ... Powell, 35, portrayed real-life astronaut John Glenn in director Theodore Melfi’s Oscar-nominated ...

The Cinema Club will host a film screening and discussion on Friday, March 28, from 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at its monthly ...

Hidden Figures brings the story of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson to the big screen. These Black women helped NASA during the John Glenn space launch. Stories like this ...

This Oscar-nominated French film follows the story of young Amélie, a socially awkward and imaginative girl who is on a quest ...

Msgr. Paul v. Garrity In 1962, John Glenn was the first American to orbit the earth in a spacecraft called Friendship 7. The mission was to complete 7 trips around the world but was cut short because ...

As the United States raced against Russia to put a man in space, NASA found untapped talent in a group of female African-American mathematicians that served as the brains behind one of the ...