Two generations before the African American space scientists immortalized in the film Hidden Figures propped up America's nascent space program, another group of pioneering female "computers" huddled in a cramped office beneath the Harvard College Observatory. For years on end, they examined and recorded the brightness of stars from glass plates photographed through a telescope […] The post 'Silent Sky' at Ford…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:19PM on January 30, 2020