Captain Charlene Downey, commander,Coast Guard Sector Los Angeles-Long Beach, and Captain Jose Pena, commander, Coast Guard Base Los Angeles-Long Beach, poses with 'Hidden Figure' Christine Darden in San Pedro, Calif., March 16, 2018. Christine Darden. In 1967, Christine Darden was added to the pool of 'human computers' who wrote complex programs and tediously crunched numbers for engineers at NASA's Langley Research Center.

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