“The Fourth ‘Hidden Figure’: Getting to NASA”
Christine Darden
1:30 pm
Nebraska Union
Room: Auditorium
1400 R St
Lincoln NE 68508
Lincoln NE 68508
Additional Info: NU
Contact:
Department of Mathematics, (402) 472-9312
Christine Darden, a retired member of the senior executive service for NASA’s Langley Research Center who was featured in the “Hidden Figures” book, will speak during MLK Week at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
Darden, whose final assignment at Langley in 2007 was as director of the Office of Strategic Communications and Education, was hired by NASA in June 1967 as a human computer. She was recently included in the book “Hidden Figures,” by author Margot Shetterly, as one who stood on the shoulders of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughn, and Mary Jackson, the NASA human computers, who as members of the segregated West Computers, contributed to the NASA space program in the early 1960s. Their work for NASA was featured in the 2016 movie, “Hidden Figures.”
The lecture is free and open to the public.
Darden, whose final assignment at Langley in 2007 was as director of the Office of Strategic Communications and Education, was hired by NASA in June 1967 as a human computer. She was recently included in the book “Hidden Figures,” by author Margot Shetterly, as one who stood on the shoulders of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughn, and Mary Jackson, the NASA human computers, who as members of the segregated West Computers, contributed to the NASA space program in the early 1960s. Their work for NASA was featured in the 2016 movie, “Hidden Figures.”
The lecture is free and open to the public.
https://www.math.unl.edu/~ncuwm/21stAnnual/
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