Jacob Keaton, center, describes the capabilities of the Space Operations Center (SOC) to “Hidden Figures” author Margot Lee Shetterly, left, and filmmaker Ted Melfi, not pictured, before they receive the NASA Exceptional Public Achievement Medal from acting NASA Administrator Robert Lightfoot and NASA astronaut Alvin Drew Wednesday, February 15, 2017 at NASA Headquarters in Washington. The "Hidden Figures" film was based on the book of the same title, by Margot Lee Shetterly, and chronicles the lives of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson -- African-American women wor
Jacob Keaton, center, describes the capabilities of the Space Operations Center (SOC) to “Hidden Figures” author Margot Lee Shetterly, left, and filmmaker Ted Melfi, not pictured, before they receive the NASA Exceptional Public Achievement Medal from acting NASA Administrator Robert Lightfoot and NASA astronaut Alvin Drew Wednesday, February 15, 2017 at NASA Headquarters in Washington. The "Hidden Figures" film was based on the book of the same title, by Margot Lee Shetterly, and chronicles the lives of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson -- African-American women working at NASA as “human computers,” who were critical to the success of John Glenn’s Friendship 7 mission in 1962. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)
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