Acting NASA Administrator Robert Lightfoot provides opening remarks at an event to award “Hidden Figures” author Margot Lee Shetterly, and filmmaker Ted Melfi the NASA Exceptional Public Achievement Medal for their roles in the “Hidden Figures” book and film, Wednesday, February 15, 2017 at NASA Headquarters in Washington. “Hidden Figures” 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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