Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library Executive Director Richard Reyes-Gavilan stands at the podium as a message from actress Taraji P. Henson, who stars as NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson in the film "Hidden Figures", is played for an audience of students, NASA staff, members of Women in Aerospace (WIA), and others, at a "Hidden Figures" book event, Wednesday December 14, 2016 at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in Washington. The film, based on the book, chronicles the lives of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson -- African-American women wor
Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library Executive Director Richard Reyes-Gavilan stands at the podium as a message from actress Taraji P. Henson, who stars as NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson in the film "Hidden Figures", is played for an audience of students, NASA staff, members of Women in Aerospace (WIA), and others, at a "Hidden Figures" book event, Wednesday December 14, 2016 at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in Washington. The film, based on the book, 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. /Aubrey Gemignani)
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