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Director Ted Melfi, whose new movie "Hidden Figures" concerns the NASA mathematicians who helped John Glenn become the first American to orbit the Earth, talks about Glenn's passing. Photo: Getty ...

Glen Powell has recalled watching a rough cut of 2016’s Hidden Figures for the first ... Powell, 35, portrayed real-life astronaut John Glenn in director Theodore Melfi’s Oscar-nominated ...

Four Black women who worked as scientists and mathematicians at NASA during the Space Race , known colloquially as “Hidden Figures ... instrumental in John Glenn's first orbit ...

Anticipating the movie “Hidden Figures,” I arrived to find nearly all seats were sold out Saturday night. I had not read the biography and I made a point to refrain from reading movie reviews or ...

As the United States raced against Russia to put a man in space, NASA found untapped talent in a group of African-American female mathematicians that served as the brains behind one of the ...

As the United States raced against Russia to put a man in space, NASA found untapped talent in a group of African-American female mathematicians that served as the brains behind one of the ...