Taraji P. Henson is a barrier-busting NASA mathematician in the first trailer for Hidden Figures

Established in 1958, NASA's formative years occurred in the 1960s — a decade marked by racial division and women’s oppression. But despite the political turmoil of the time, African-American women were already breaking barriers in the early days of the space program, helping to get the first human space missions off the ground. Continue reading…