made the names dorothy vaughan, mary jackson, katherine johnson and christine darden and the other women who contributed to the space race and change the course of history finally receive their dues. a few housekeeping notes, i want to remind everyone the book signing will take place afterwords in the great hall. c-span asks because they are filming, no flash photography. and silence your phone. i welcome you on behalf of the hampton museum, invite you to make history with us and tonight margot lee shetterly is doing that. it is with pleasure and honor i introduce margot lee shetterly. [applause] >> thank you so much for that amazing introduction. thank you to the hampton history museum which has been incredibly supportive of its research since the beginning and i can't think of anyplace better to publicly launch this endeavor than here in hampton, virginia, my hometown with my home people and thank you for coming out here tonight. it is a wonderful thing this venue that i am giving now is taking place in a church because it started six years ago in a church here in downtown hampton wher

christine darden and the other women who contributed to the space race and changed the course of history finally receive their due. now, lucy gave a few housekeeping notes. i just want to remind everyone that her talk is going to be here, but the book signing will take place at the hampton history museum afterwards in the great hall, okay? so walk back across the street. and so c-span asked me to say that because they're filming, they ask for no flash photography. so if you want to take a picture, just turn your flash off. and please remember to science your phones. so, again, i welcome you on behalf of the hampton history museum, and they invite you to make history with us. and tonight margot's doing just that, making history. it is with great pleasure and honor that i introduce my friend, margot lee shetterly. [applause] >>chadra, thank you so much for that amazing introduction. thank you to the hampton history museum which has been incredibly supportive of this research since the very beginning. and i can't think of any place better to publicly launch this endeavor than here in hampto