Author Margot Lee Shetterly found that at least 80 black women worked as "human computers" at NASA during the mid 20th century. She talks about this in her new book Hidden Figures: The American ...

The 50-year-old co-founder of Amazon.com Inc. started Blue Origin in Kent, Washington, in 2000 to develop technology to make human access to space easier.

The Narratives Behind the Numbers Margot Lee Shetterly, author of Hidden Figures (2016) and founder of the Human Computer Project. Image courtesy of Margot Lee Shetterly.

A nation’s progress is measured by the sky it protects and the stars it reaches. Modern space exploration is no longer a ...

Among the best known of the human computers are the Black women who worked on the space program at Langley during segregation and were featured in the book “Hidden Figures” by Margo Lee Shetterly. A ...