NASA Chief Scientist, Dr. Ellen Stofan, moderates a panel at a "Hidden Figures" book event with author Margot Lee Shetterly; Christyl Johnson, NASA Modern Figure, Goddard Space Flight Center; Knatokie Ford, senior policy advisor, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; and Mimi Valdes, executive producer of Hidden Figures, 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

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NASA Chief Scientist, Dr. Ellen Stofan, moderates a panel at a "Hidden Figures" book event with author Margot Lee Shetterly; Christyl Johnson, NASA Modern Figure, Goddard Space Flight Center; Knatokie Ford, senior policy advisor, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; and Mimi Valdes, executive producer of Hidden Figures, 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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