Scattered here and there was something unexpected: Women, some white and some black, in knee-length skirts and pompadour hairdos. Shetterly's father was a scientist who worked at Langley, so growing up in the 1970s and 80s, she was aware of the history of black women at Nasa. The stories of these math whizzes would become the book Hidden Figures, on which the movie is based. Related Content Video Watch: 'Hidden Figures' trailer Tattoos as evidence: Aaron Hernandez's far from the first Watch NZH Local Focus: The selfie that could cost up to $250kEveryone knows what a computer looks like. Women who used pencils and paper to calculate data from wind tunnel tests, among other research, were called computers.

Source: New Zealand Herald January 25, 2017 23:00 UTC