Julie Williams-Byrd, systems engineer, Langley Research Center, right, speaks on a panel with NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, second from left; NASA Chief Historian, Bill Barry, center; and NASA Public Affairs Officer, Sarah Ramsey, left, as part of a Digital Learning Network event to discuss the history of "human computers" at NASA, featured in the movie "Hidden Figures", on Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016, at Langley Research Center in Hampton, VA. The film stars Taraji P. Henson as Katherine Johnson, the African American mathematician, physicist, and space scientist, who calcu

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Julie Williams-Byrd, systems engineer, Langley Research Center, right, speaks on a panel with NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, second from left; NASA Chief Historian, Bill Barry, center; and NASA Public Affairs Officer, Sarah Ramsey, left, as part of a Digital Learning Network event to discuss the history of "human computers" at NASA, featured in the movie "Hidden Figures", on Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016, at Langley Research Center in Hampton, VA. The film stars Taraji P. Henson as Katherine Johnson, the African American mathematician, physicist, and space scientist, who calculated flight trajectories for John Glenn's first orbital flight in 1962. Also featured are Octavia Spencer as Dorothy Vaughan and Janelle Monae as Mary Jackson, Johnson’s colleagues in the segregated West Area Computers division of Langley Research Center. Aubrey Gemignani)

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