As with Joy, sometimes it takes a successful film with big name stars to make a life-story known. This is the case with Hidden Figures (2016) which focusses on Katherine Johnson (1918-2020) - pictured here in 1962 - and her brilliant female colleagues, or 'computers' as they were called. She was an African-American space scientist and mathematician, a leading figure in American space history, and played a huge role in calculating key trajectories in the Space Race such as the trajectory for Alan Shepard, the first American in space, as well as for the 1969 Apollo 11 flight to the moon.