Hidden Figures, with Margot Lee Shetterly and Janelle Monáe

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🗓️ 5 October 2018

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Discover more about NASA’s “Hidden Figures” as Neil deGrasse Tyson sits down with author Margot Lee Shetterly, Janelle Monáe, comic co-host Sasheer Zamata, NASA Chief Historian Bill Barry, NASA systems engineer Tracy Drain, and Bill Nye the Science Guy. NOTE: StarTalk All-Access subscribers can listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: https://www.startalkradio.net/all-access/hidden-figures-with-margot-lee-shetterly-and-janelle-monae/ Photo Credit: Brandon Royal

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:04.0	You're a place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:09.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:13.0	Welcome to the Hall of the Universe.
0:23.0	I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist.
0:27.0	And tonight, we're going to explore the story of NASA's hidden figures.
0:32.0	These are the unsung mathematicians whose calculations help put the first Americans into space.
0:39.0	So let's do this.
0:41.0	So my comedic co-host tonight is comedian Sushir Zemeda.
0:51.0	Hi.
0:52.0	Welcome.
0:56.0	And on the subject of tonight, I have some knowledge of NASA's history.
1:01.0	I wouldn't call myself an expert.
1:03.0	We brought in an expert.
1:04.0	We brought in chief historian of NASA, Bill Barry.
1:08.0	Bill, thanks for joining us.
1:10.0	And that's awesome.
1:11.0	So to begin this conversation, I've the trailer for the film Hidden Figures.
1:16.0	Just to get a basic idea of what that film is about.
1:19.0	Check it out.
1:21.0	We go from being our father's daughter to our husband's wife to our baby's mother's.
1:26.0	You know what we're doing here.
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