{"id":252629,"date":"2016-12-16T05:29:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T09:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=833cc1c6e392c6e821ccc121ad4810da"},"modified":"2016-12-16T05:29:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T09:29:00","slug":"hidden-figures-no-more-meet-the-black-women-who-helped-send-america-to-space-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=252629","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Hidden Figures&#8217; No More: Meet The Black Women Who Helped Send America To Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2016\/12\/15\/lrc-1980-b701_p-00043_wide-c4402268488b840364cf6ee1fea5da810b71a445.jpg?s=600' alt='According to NASA, Mary Jackson \"may have been the only black female aeronautical engineer in the field\" in the 1950s. Singer and actress Janelle Mon\u00e1e plays her in the film Hidden Figures.'\/><\/p>\n<p>A new film tells the stories of three women who made incalculable contributions to the space program: engineer Mary Jackson, mathematician Katherine Johnson and NASA supervisor Dorothy Vaughan.<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: Bob Nye\/Courtesy of NASA Langley)<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/include\/images\/tracking\/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=505569187' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new film tells the stories of three women who made incalculable contributions to the space program: engineer Mary Jackson, mathematician Katherine Johnson and NASA supervisor Dorothy Vaughan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=252629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252630,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252629\/revisions\/252630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}