The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America’s greatest achievements in space. Soon to be a major film starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, Kirsten Dunst, and Kevin Costner.

Before John Glenn orbited the planet earth, or Neil Armstrong walked over the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians referred to as “human computers” used pencils, slide guidelines and adding machines to calculate the numbers that about Hidden Numbers: The American Wish and the Untold Story of the Dark Ladies Mathematicians Who Helped Get the Space Race would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space.

Among these problem-solvers were several exceptionally talented African American women, some of the brightest thoughts of their generation. Originally relegated to teaching math in the South’s segregated public schools, they were known as into service during the labor shortages of World War II, when America’s aeronautics market is at dire need of anyone who acquired the right stuff. All of a sudden, these overlooked mathematics whizzes had a shot at jobs worthy of their skills, plus they answered Uncle Sam’s call, moving to Hampton, Virginia as well as the exciting, high-energy world of the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory.

Even while Virginia’s Jim Crow laws required them to be segregated off their white counterparts, the women of Langley’s all-black “Western Computing” group helped America achieve among the things it desired most: a decisive success on the Soviet Union in the Cold Battle, and complete domination of the heavens.

Starting in World War II and moving through to the Cold Battle, the Civil Privileges Movement and the area Race, Hidden Figures follows the interwoven accounts of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson and Christine Darden, four BLACK women who participated in a few of NASA’s greatest successes. It chronicles their careers over almost three decades they faced difficulties, forged alliances and utilized their intellect to change their own lives, and their country’s future.