I will have you know, I was the first negro female student at West Virginia university graduate school. On any given day, I analyze the binomial levels air displacement, friction and velocity. And compute over ten thousand calculations by cosine, square root and lately analytic geometry. By hand. There are twenty, bright, highly capable negro women in the west computing group, and we’re proud to be doing our part for the country. So yes, they let women do some things at NASA, Mr. Johnson. And it’s not because we wear skirts. It’s because we wear glasses. Have a good day.
Hidden Figures (2016) Dir. Theodore Melfi
The go point for re-entry is two thousand nine hundred ninety miles from where we want Colonel Glenn to land. If we assume that’s the Bahamas, at seventeen thousand five hundred and forty-four miles per hour, upon re-entry three hundred seventy feet, at a descent angle of 46.56 degrees. The distance velocity squared, sine gravity squared. Sine, thirty-two feet, and the distance would be twenty million five hundred and thirty thousand three hundred seventy-two feet, or two thousand nine hundred ninety miles or 46.33 degrees. Okay, so that puts your landing zone at 5.0667 degrees North, 77.3333 degrees West.
Oh, I’ll tell you where to begin. Three Negro women are chasing a white police officer down the highway in Hampton, Virginia in 1961. Ladies, that there is a God-ordained miracle.