{"id":3419,"date":"2016-09-07T09:34:03","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T14:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/?p=3419"},"modified":"2020-08-17T17:38:51","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T17:38:51","slug":"the-african-american-women-behind-nasas-rocket-launches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/2016\/09\/07\/the-african-american-women-behind-nasas-rocket-launches\/","title":{"rendered":"The African-American women behind NASA&#8217;s rocket launches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From CBS News<br \/>\nSep 7, 2016<\/p>\n<p>A group of women at NASA called &#8220;human computers,&#8221; many of them black, helped put a man on the moon. Their intellect was an essential part of America&#8217;s ability to launch rockets into space. Jan Crawford shows us how they were relegated to a footnote in history &#8212; until now.<\/p>\n<p><code><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/egYTxxKylv8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/code><\/p>\n<p>A book was published about these women call &#8220;Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race&#8221; by Margot Lee Shetterly. <\/p>\n<p>Also a movie is coming out in Jan 2017 about these women&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><code><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RK8xHq6dfAo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From CBS News Sep 7, 2016 A group of women at NASA called &#8220;human computers,&#8221; many of them black, helped put a man on the moon. Their intellect was an essential part of America&#8217;s ability to launch rockets into space. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/2016\/09\/07\/the-african-american-women-behind-nasas-rocket-launches\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4957,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3419\/revisions\/4957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}