Synopsis for Hidden Figures

John Mark Palma
3 min readAug 16, 2019

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BASED ON A TRUE STORY

The Story is about the the untold story of a three Woman who made a big name in the history .

The story started on White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia in 1926. A young girl named Katherine Goble. she is an advanced student and a genius at math. Her parents agreed to move her into the other school. Katherine Goble is working for Nasa and have a two co-worker named Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson.The three women work at the West Area Computing division, segregated from the rest of Langley Research Center, along with many other black women who work as Computers.Mary Jackson Got Promoted and re-assigned to assist the male engineers.While Katherine Goble moved to help the research task groups.while Dorothy Vaughan didn’t ge a promotion beacuse she don’t have a high enough security clearance. Time passes and Katherine Goble needs to use the restroom and She ask her co-worker Ruth if she know where the bathroom is and Ruth said I don’t know where your bathroom is. Katherine goes outside needing to pee She has to leave the building and run half a mile to the colored women’s bathroom in the West Area Computing division she used to work in. afther that The three women go to church with their families and there where Katherine Goble met Jim Johnson.

The NASA employees are gathered out on the launch site to meet the astronauts including John Glenn the pilot of Friendship 7, becoming the first American to orbit orbit the earth atmosphere. Katherine Goble follows Al Harrison into the meeting where they talked about where they ganna land the friendship 7 space capsule.and Katherine Goble step forward to write something on the black board and explain to the other members and they’re all impressed.While Mary Jackson is enrolling to a shcool to get an degree in engineering. and Dorothy Vaughan is studying about the IBM computer in the data center. One evening Katherine Goble comes home to find her daughters dressed up and her dinner table set for a special occasion with Jim Johnson. few moments later.Katherine Goble noticed that a small jeweler’s box which Jim Johnson puts on the table in front of Katherine. and got married. and Katherine became Johnson.(Katherine G. Johnson)

On the launch day A problem arises in the control room when the IBM computer’s calculations for Glenn’s flight don’t match the previous day’s.and requested Katherine Jhonson to figure out the wrong computation. Fifty million people is watching the lift-off on television and and outside to watch the Friendship 7 Launch into space. After successful orbits around Earth someone notices a warning light problem with the heat shield.but eventually the problem got solved and the friendship 7 got a safe landing.afterwards Dorothy Vaughan got promoted to supervisor Analysis and Computation Division .and Mary Jackson gets her degree and becomes an engineer.

Relating it to our present modern age.

-This movie relate us that no matter where we came from we still have the same equality.

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