On why women were hired to do the actual equation computation at NASA:
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Langevin says the movie also made some of the background characters into composites of real people in the story and made up some characters to reflect the views of the time period. The movie does compress the original structure and timeline of history. “The spirit and the flavor and the life stories of the three main characters is absolutely true,” Langevin says. Gail Langevin, NASA Historian based at Langley, gives us the facts behind the movie. The film has been noted as one of the top 10 films of 2016 by the National Board of Review and won two nominations at the recent Golden Globes for Best Original Score and Octavia Spencer as Best Supporting Actress. The film chronicles their work on the flight trajectories that put John Glenn into orbit around the earth. Johnson, Vaughan and Jackson worked together in the 1960s at NASA Langley in Virginia during a time of Jim Crow laws and racial tensions in the south. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (played by Octavia Spencer) and Mary Jackson (played by Janelle Monáe) are credited with opening doors for women in color across the industry. The movie “ Hidden Figures”, based on a book by the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly, features three African-American women and how they changed NASA around the time of the space race to the moon.
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