NASA
It's harder for blacks to go to the toilet than for astronauts to go to the sky, because the toilets in the building don't allow black people to enter.
Even if she wanted to pee, she had to run 800 meters from headquarters to the black special colored toilet, and in order not to delay her work, she worked directly in the toilet
Convenient to run back to the headquarters non-stop, a full waste of 40 minutes, she had to work crazy overtime to calculate the data, it was difficult to finish, but the boss directly threw it into the trash can
Because the data of the space agency is ever-changing, the last second is counted and the next second may be invalidated. Catherine had no choice but to increase her speed, but when she wanted to have a cup of coffee, her white colleagues stared at her with disdain
The next day they actually sorted the coffee. The note said that it was for people of color, which was 61 years ago in the United States, black and white were clearly divided, the library books should be divided into black and white, the canteen meals should be divided into black and white, and the office environment should be divided into black and white
Even the bathroom scores black and white, but everyone is calculating the data, and the file can not be divided into black and white. Didn't want the leader to deliberately black out the confidential data. It's still black and white
The leader also told her not to take it too seriously, throwing it to her was just a formality, but Catherine was not discouraged, she accidentally found that she could see the data that was obscured in the light, so she came to the blackboard, did not delay for a moment, and immediately began to calculate,
Soon the results came out, and Catherine finally couldn't resist going to the toilet, and she ran another 800 meters. They came to the black toilet, and at this moment, all the talented engineers in the bureau surrounded the blackboard, and they were shocked by the data in front of them
It even alarmed the boss, who began interrogating Catherine because the data was top secret
She said, "I just rely on the lights to calculate" The boss began to look at her with admiration and ordered that the documents in her hands should not be altered, Catherine proved herself by strength, and she worked harder after that.
Even if she is sick, she will not ask for leave, and even so, there is still a fatal problem that has always plagued her...
The black lady braved the heavy rain
Ran 800 meters just to go to the toilet, and when she returned, she was not only drenched in rain
She was also scolded by the boss, thinking that she was touching the fish
This time Catherine couldn't hold back any longer
"I work like a dog every day and night, I have to be colored every toilet, I have to run to my hometown in Africa half a mile away to go to the toilet," Catherine said, packing up her things and walking straight out, although she did not get a trace of respect, at least defended her dignity
But she didn't expect that the next day, the boss actually smashed the sign of the black bathroom in front of everyone
At the space agency, urine is no longer colored
And put her in an extremely important meeting that no black lady had ever attended before
Catherine knew that her chance had come, and she kept her mind steady, and in just a few minutes, she calculated the space route with her bare hands, and this calculation left a deep impression on the astronauts
Serene is also known as a walking human flesh computer, but the good times are short-lived, and the space agency has introduced a number of advanced machines that can calculate tens of thousands of data in a second
Even faster than Catherine, which indicates that the space agency no longer needs computing personnel, and Catherine is sad but has to accept this fact!
Soon the rocket will be launched, the whole country is looking forward to it, but when the astronauts take off, the machine is wrong,
The boss immediately communicated with the astronaut, and the astronaut said that he would let Catherine calculate, as long as she said it was OK, I would take off directly
So the staff took the document, rushed to the black computing building eight hundred meters away, found Catherine, and under her rapid calculation, she quickly had accurate coordinates
Then he ran back to headquarters and handed the information to his colleagues, but they took the documents
Just as Catherine was shut out, the lost Catherine knew that the black woman was not qualified to enter at all, and just as she was leaving in frustration, the door opened again and the boss came out
He stopped Catherine and prepared a work card for her, and at the invitation of her boss, she and her colleagues witnessed the launch of the rocket and successfully saw the astronauts return safely, and since then Catherine has won a veritable respect at the space agency, once a biased leader, and also personally made a cup of coffee for Catherine
She still calculates data, participates in more space programs, and makes outstanding contributions to space navigation.
In her honor. The space agency built a computer building in Catherine's name. Catherine was 97 years old in 2015. The President awarded her america's highest civilian honor. Presidential Medal of Freedom.
This is the United States of the 1960s, the status of blacks is terrible, in the space zone, black people can only use dark and dilapidated basements to work
Occasionally, white people will be used as cleaners, and even if they eat, they must consciously isolate themselves, and they must never take the initiative to meet with white people.
But they are not willing to give in. So Catherine and her girlfriend Mary and Rosie all worked hard. Soon, Mary was promoted to the engineering department. On his first day in the new department, he was drawn to the model of the spaceship
Mary reached out to touch the fascinating thing, panicked, and was stuck in the lab.
But the white colleagues didn't care if he was alive or dead, and directly started the instrument. Their eyes were full of disgust, as if they thought that black women were born with many things.
Fortunately, the male leader was not bad, and he not only asked Mary what she thought of the Rockets, but also encouraged him to step out of his comfort zone and challenge him to be a female engineer.
Mary was stunned, he had never dared to have such great ambitions, but now, he decided to give it a try. However, her application was soon rejected because his dual master's degree did not meet the requirements
He needed to take another course, but this course did not allow black women to learn. Ma Li was furious, and he decided to file a lawsuit to change the status quo of this injustice.
Under his arguments, he finally impressed the judge and became the first black woman in American history to enter a white classroom. A few months later, Mary's course ended, and he joined the company smoothly, becoming the first female black engineer in American history, making indelible contributions to the development of the American space industry.
Another girlfriend, Rossi, took the initiative to take on the work of the supervisor when there was no supervisor in the group
Even if his boss refused to promote him to full supervisor because he was black, he did not give up his duties as a supervisor. When the space agency introduced mainframe computers, it was Rossi who was the first to discover the crisis
It is also he who uses his spare time to flip through the materials, teach himself programming, slowly explore the use of the machine, and give all these to colleagues in the group to avoid them being replaced by machines.
Soon, the opportunity came. None of the white men in the bureau could handle the new machine, so they had to turn to the Negroes for help. In this way, Rosie and all the black calculators were promoted from the dark and narrow basement to the bright and open calculation building
And he himself became the first black female director in U.S. history, recognized as one of the space agency's top talents.
Catherine, mary and Rosie, are all women who have made great contributions to the space industry, but their names have always been hidden behind the annals of history, becoming hidden figures in history.
Today, Rubik's Cube tells their stories, not only in honor of them, but also to encourage all women. Gender and race have never been a barrier to success, and women are far more gifted and accomplished than the world might think.