Janet Sellars, acting associate administrator for Diversity and Equal Opportunity at NASA Headquarters, speaks before "Hidden Figures" filmmaker Ted Melfi and author Margot Lee Shetterly are awarded the NASA Exceptional Public Achievement Medal by 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 w
Janet Sellars, acting associate administrator for Diversity and Equal Opportunity at NASA Headquarters, speaks before "Hidden Figures" filmmaker Ted Melfi and author Margot Lee Shetterly are awarded the NASA Exceptional Public Achievement Medal by 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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