Photo Credit Mattel
Not to be outdone by American Girl’s release of an aspiring female astronaut doll, Mattel is releasing a Barbie inspired by “hidden figure” Katherine Johnson.
Johnson was an African-American mathematician for NASA in the mid-1950s, whose flawless calculation of the trajectory of the space agency’s first American-manned flight into space was depicted by Taraji P. Henson in the 2016 movie “Hidden Figures.”
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