From AT&T to NASA, women working as computers performed the calculations that made modern science possible. In the early ...

Successfully getting humans into space and back is risky business. However, it was made possible less than a century ago thanks to help from some extraordinary Black women known as ‘Hidden Figures’.

When the Cold War heated up in 1946, the U.S. and the Soviet Union took their rivalry from Earth to the stars. Sputnik, the first artificial satellite, blasted off in 1957, and the U.S. struck hard.