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The mid-20th century. The United States is striving with all its might to overtake the USSR and be the first to send a man into space. It is then that NASA discovers untapped talent in a group of African-American women mathematicians, who become the brains behind one of the greatest and most significant operations in the country's history. Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Katherine Johnson, with their remarkable minds and dreams of great achievements, overcame all the gender and racial prejudices and professional barriers in their way to forever write their names into the history books as true American heroes.