"Hidden Figures" author Margot Lee Shetterly, right, shows her father, center, her new NASA Exceptional Public Achievement Medal, after receiving it from acting NASA Administrator Robert Lightfoot, left, and NASA astronaut Alvin Drew, not pictured, Wednesday, February 15, 2017 at NASA Headquarters in Washington. The "Hidden Figures" film was based on the book by 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

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"Hidden Figures" author Margot Lee Shetterly, right, shows her father, center, her new NASA Exceptional Public Achievement Medal, after receiving it from acting NASA Administrator Robert Lightfoot, left, and NASA astronaut Alvin Drew, not pictured, Wednesday, February 15, 2017 at NASA Headquarters in Washington. The "Hidden Figures" film was based on the book by 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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