NASA's 'Hidden Figures' Put Forward for Congressional Gold Medal

Tuesday, August 7, 2018 - 18:00 in Paleontology & Archaeology

U.S. lawmakers have plotted a trajectory towards bestowing the nation's highest civilian award to four of NASA's "Hidden Figures" — African American women whose roles as human "computers" helped to open outer space to astronauts in the early 1960s.

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