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Hidden Figures

Hi­, today’s entry is going to be about the second movie we watched on this course. This time I’m talking about “Hidden Figures”, an American movie that tells the story of three African-American women that worked for the NASA during the famous space race to first reach the space and safely come back between the USSR and the United States. Those three women are Dorothy, Mary and Katherine, and they were key during the launch of those first betas and successfully trips to space. First of all, as these women were very important employees inside NASA and that had a meaningful contribution to this space race, the fact that I hadn’t heard about them before really surprised me. In those times they were suffering two types of discrimination at the same time, being a woman and being Afro-American. I really liked how they manage to show how key they were in that project to gain respect and equality inside NASA. I think the main message of this movie is to demonstrate the importance of K