Film Research Project: Blog Post 2

this picture is a picture of a 1957 Friden STW-10 mechanical calculator. this was the calculators that all the men and women used at NASA and during this time.



this is a picture of katherine g. johnson at work in NASA, featured across from her is a celestial training device, each NASA worker had one of them at their desks just like the 1957 Friden STW-10 mechanical calculator.



this image is a picture of the IBM machine in NASA, this machine was supposed to put a lot of human computers out of a job, but instead the human computers worked on/for the IBM machine. dorothy vaughan became the supervisor for this machine and taught a lot of women how to use it.



this image is a picture of the staff of the supersonic pressure tunnel in 1950s. actually pictured in the very bottom right is mary jackson, one of the main characters and a hidden figure of NASA's space program.


this image is a picture of the very famous col. john glenn, pictured next to his shuttle the friendship 7. this is the shuttle that katherine, mary and dorothy all worked on.


this image is a picture of the famous ride that jfk took with john glenn after the successful trajectory of the friendship 7. this was the "homecoming ride".


this image is a picture of the real katherine g. johnson, a little older, receiving the presidential medal of freedom from the president. she received this medal for all the work she did for NASA.

this image is a very famous image of katherine g. johnson at her desk at NASA.