“As fantastical as America’s space ambitions might have seemed, sending a man into space was starting to feel like a straightforward task… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
A lot of times, when you have a story of minorities in America, it's always this super, oppositional thing. It's segregation, it's… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
“Because of the overwhelmingly white public face of the space program, the black engineers, scientists, and mathematicians who were deeply involved with… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
“...internalized the Negro theorem of needing to be twice as good to get half as far.” — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
“black people frequently disqualified themselves even without the WHITES ONLY sign in view” — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
“At the beginning of a decade when everything was beginning to seem possible, nothing seemed impossible.” — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
Every time you go to an airport and get on a plane, you are basically taking advantage of the work that was done at… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
“It was the engineer who determined what problems to investigate, designed the experiments, and defined the assignments for the mathematicians.” — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
“Like craftsmen in a medieval guild, NASA engineers hoped that one day their children would decide to take up the mantle of the profession… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
For too long, history has imposed a binary condition on its black citizens: either nameless or renowned, menial or exceptional, passive recipients of the… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
The success of 'Hidden Figures' proves that people are interested in, hungry for, stories about transcendent human experiences. — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
“Early in her career at Langley, Dorthy Lee was interviewed for the Daily Press, in all probability by Virginia Biggins, the female reporter assigned… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
“Get the girl to check the numbers,' said the astronaut. If she says the numbers are good, he told them, I'm ready to go.” — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
